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Floorplan Manager provides you with a link to the Application Enhancement Tool (AET).

This tool allows you to create additional fields which you can then add to the user interface of your application. Creation of additional fields requires the presence of enhancement places (markers) in specific DDIC (Data Dictionary) structures, namely, tables. These enhancement places are defined during development and allow additional fields to be appended to such enhancement places as, for example, BOL (Business Object Layer) objects.

The relevant feeder class of a component in your application determines the presence of these enhancement places. If an enhancement place exists, theCreate/Maintain Field Enhancements link is displayed in the Repositories panel in the FPM configuration editor, FLUID.

New fields can be added to search, and form components. You can add columns to a list component.

It is also possible to create new GUIBB configurations (additional list or form components) using the AET; you can configure them afterwards in FLUID.

Once you have created the additional fields using the AET, refresh the application screen to have them appear in the Repositories panel. You can then move them to the appropriate UIBB on the user interface.