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Designing Custom Entities in IFS Cloud: Getting It Right First Time

Best practices for designing custom entities in IFS Cloud — naming conventions, key patterns, relationship design, Marble integration, and future-proofing against upgrades.

Custom entities in IFS Cloud are a powerful mechanism for extending the platform's data model, but designing them poorly creates technical debt that compounds at every upgrade cycle. Getting them right from day one requires discipline, clarity of purpose, and…

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4 min read

Custom Enumerations in IFS Cloud: Using Them Safely

How custom enumerations work in IFS Cloud and IFS Applications, when to use them for custom attributes, and when a custom reference or modelled enumeration is the better design.

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13 min read

IFS Lobby Design: Creating Useful Dashboards in Aurena

How to design and configure Aurena Contexts as role-based dashboards — KPI tiles, filtered lists, and quick navigation — and how it compares to the old Enterprise Explorer lobby.

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12 min read

Custom Commands in IFS Aurena: Adding Buttons That Actually Do Things

How to add custom command buttons to Aurena pages via Configuration or Developer Studio — including PL/SQL actions, confirmation dialogs, and parameter passing.

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19 min read

Building a Custom IFS Aurena Page from Zero

A complete walkthrough of building a new page in IFS Cloud — entity model, projection, Aurena client file, navigation entry, and command buttons — from first file to live in Aurena.

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6 min read

IFS Marble Language: A Practical Field Guide

A grounded reference for IFS Cloud's Marble modelling language: projection files, client files, layers, overrides, overtakes, and the limits of what belongs in Marble.

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15 min read

Writing Your First IFS Cloud Projection from Scratch

A step-by-step guide to modeling a new entity in IFS Developer Studio, writing the projection, and surfacing it in Aurena — covering Marble syntax, entity keys, and deployment.

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