Best practices for reuse

[antgel]

We have quite a few areas in our system where I’d love to be able to “pull in” a Dimensions type (WxH or WxHxD). What’s the best way to do this in ERPNext? I note that Child types exist but that looks like a one-to-many which isn’t really what I’m looking for (e.g. a gift card only has one set of dimensions).

[Yamen_Zakhour]

You can use the child table in any standard doctype as the example I wrote in your other post

Best practices for duplicated custom fields, where "is a"

Each field has its own column in the database and you cant have two columns with the same id. (i.e., the system won’t know in which column it should store the data) You do not have to manually add custom fields from the custom field doctype. From the customize form itself you can create your fields and they will be added automatically to the custom fields doctype. Again, in the same doctype you cant have two fields with the fieldname ‘width’, each field must have a unique name. However, you ca…

However as mentioned you can not reuse this in child doctypes