Field help (APATYPE)

The patch type can take the following values :

• Standard : this is a patch that is likely to be installed in a list of folders that will be given on the integration, this list integrating in principle the supervisor folder. In the majority of cases (including the specific/custom and vertical developments), it is the type of patch to be used. In fact, the delivery of specific/custom or vertical developments is not conditioned by the type of patch, but by the list of activity codes that are given in the corresponding grid.
• Supervisor  : this is a patch that will only be integrated in the supervisor folder. This type is used in order to integrate pre-parameterization elements (import/export templates, automatic journals, Workflow rules...) that may have been modified in the different folders. To avoid the deletion of the modification carried out, only the supervisor folder will be updated. This is used to have the pararmeterization values up to date in the case of the creation of a new folder and also used to manually update by copy in each folder after having used the existing comparison utilities.
• Vertical : this is a patch identical to the standard patch, but it is used, when a screen is patched, to delete specific/custom actions (SPV) not present in the patch.
•  Specific : this is a patch identical to the standard patch, but it is used, when a screen is patched, to delete specific/custom actions (SPE) not present in the patch.

In the previous versions, a patch of the type SPX is used to delete an SPE action present in a screen. From version 150, these last two types of patch, much more flexible, are used to update the SPE actions (which previously existed) and the SPV action (which are new).

Important note : The patches containing the documentation elements are processed in a particular fashion, described in the corresponding appendix.