Introduction to Component Manager

Component Manager allows customizations made on one Sage CRM system to be saved, transferred, and applied to another Sage CRM system. It enables Sage CRM developers to package and reuse implementation-specific customizations in future implementations.

The Extensibility Module is required to record changes and create a component. For more information on recording and creating components, see the Developer Help on the Sage CRM Help Center.

Components supplied to you may contain full details of any of the following areas:

• Field Customizations.
• Field Security—where the update applies to "Everyone".
• Screen Customizations—including Field Level Scripting and Custom Content.
• View Customizations.
• List Customizations.
• Tab Customizations—including System Menus and Menu Buttons.
• Block Customizations—including Dashboard blocks.
• Table and Database connections.
• TableScript Customizations.
• Translations—including inline translation mode, field customization method and translations list method.
• Reports—creation of new reports and modification of existing ones.
• Most Workflow Customizations.
• Button Groups.
• Interactive Dashboards.

Customization script files, such as ASP pages, will be included automatically if they are directly referred to (for example, by a newly created tab). However, when an ASP page is updated, or when a file that is indirectly referred to is added (for example, an "include file" in an ASP page), then these files must be manually copied to the component folder. For more information, see the Developer Help on the Sage CRM Help Center.