Data Types Personalization

This is an enhancement to the Data types dictionary function (GESATY). The Data type personalization enhancement can be accessed on its own function page called GESATYC.

The GESATYC enhancement enables clients to personalize three specific fields of a data type (Length, Adonix Format, and Options) without the risk of these values being overwritten during a future Sage X3 patch or update. In Sage X3 SaaS, and in Sage X3 on-prem from 2025 R2 onward, this function must be used instead of modifying these fields directly in GESATY.

After saving changes in GESATYC, run VALDICO (Dictionary validation) to apply the changes to the folder.

For reference and archival purposes, the factory values provided by Sage for the three fields are preserved in the system via the Data types dictionary function (GESATY). Read the documentation regarding the GESATY function here.

Screen management

Type (CODTYP)

List of data types available for selection. Basic data types (data types that have length = 0 or type = image file or text file) are not available for selection. If the Protected checkbox is ticked for a data type, it cannot be personalized.

Upon selecting a data type, the Format, Options, and Length fields are auto filled with values from GESATY.
Internal type (TYPTYP)

Indicates the internal type of the data type. You can read more about the possible types here.

Tab General

Length (LINGTYP)

Indicates, if necessary, the length of the character strings or the numbers.
Format adonix (FORTYP)

Indicates the �adonix� format of the data type. This format must be coherent with the internal type, and it must conform to the Adonix syntax. The details of existing syntaxes are provided here.
Options (OPTION)

Indicates the options realized by characters that can be concatenated when several options are required.

Specific Buttons

Validation

This button is used to update and compile the WWGLOBLON process. In this process, for each alphanumeric data type a global variable of the shortint type contains the entry length for the data type. These variables are named GLONxxx ( xxx = data type). These variables will be used during the definition of the work variables linked to a data type in the process. This is used to alleviate the problems linked to a modification of a data type length.

Example of the use of these variables :
# work variable for the Product reference
Local Char WITEM (GLONITM)
WITEM = [F:ITM]ITMREF  

This button is used to copy the data type definition to another folder.

Block number 1

OBJET
CLES

Block number 2

From folder (DOSORG)

Use this field to define the folder from which the record will be copied. The possible syntaxes are described in the Dedicated appendix.
All folders (TOUDOS)

Use this option to copy the record to all the folders defined in the dictionary (ADOSSIER table of the current solution).
To folder (DOSDES)

Use this field to define the folder to which the record will be copied. The possible syntaxes are described in the Dedicated appendix.

Save

This button is used to update the GESATY function with the new personalized values for the Length, Format and Option fields, while also generating the fields that store the factory values provided by Sage.