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Guide of basics, such as itemTypes etc

Xel321
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Are there any guide / document to introduce how aras works with itemTypes etc. I have found https://www.aras.com/support/documentation/ and thats a great place for creating functionality etc. But I would like to have a more thoroughly understanding of the funcationality.

The itemType is one example but I would like to understand how things are connected between life-cycles, workflows, itemTypes etc.

Or is it only the just Ask innovarot the only source of information regarding this?

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    Xel321,

    We try and cover the basics in the Aras Fundamentals blog posts, but as Tim says, the most basic piece is that everything is an item, and every item has an itemtype. Whatever you're doing, if it's a category of thing, it's probably an itemtype. If it's a single example of the thing, it's probably an item. So, LifeCycle is an itemtype, as is Workflow. A specific LifeCycle attached to something is an item, as is a specific Workflow an item goes through. 

    Somewhat confusingly, this means that the LifeCycle itemtype is an item, whose type is ItemType. We generally recommend not editing the ItemType item, since changes there affect just about everything in the system, but you could! (Back up your database first. Seriously. There are a lot of ways to render your instance nonfunctional by messing with the ItemType item.) 

    Skyler C.

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    Xel321,

    We try and cover the basics in the Aras Fundamentals blog posts, but as Tim says, the most basic piece is that everything is an item, and every item has an itemtype. Whatever you're doing, if it's a category of thing, it's probably an itemtype. If it's a single example of the thing, it's probably an item. So, LifeCycle is an itemtype, as is Workflow. A specific LifeCycle attached to something is an item, as is a specific Workflow an item goes through. 

    Somewhat confusingly, this means that the LifeCycle itemtype is an item, whose type is ItemType. We generally recommend not editing the ItemType item, since changes there affect just about everything in the system, but you could! (Back up your database first. Seriously. There are a lot of ways to render your instance nonfunctional by messing with the ItemType item.) 

    Skyler C.

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