2471324 - Feature: Disable filter for custom fields of type Foundation Object

How do I disable the filtering of custom-string fields configured as Objects. For example if my custom-string field is configured as an Object (Location Group) -:

      <hris-field max-length="256" id="custom-string30" visibility="both" required="true" type="locationGroup">
        <label>Location Group</label>
        <label xml:lang="en-US">Location Group</label>
      </hris-field>

and the Location Group object has an association to Legal Entity, but I want to stop this child object field (Location Group) from filtering based on its parent.

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You can enable the "Disable filter for custom fields of type Foundation Object" feature to stop the filtering for custom-string fields configured as type Object, where the Object specified in the configuration is the Child of another Object.

How do I enable this feature?

1. Navigate to Admin Center > Company System and Logo Settings > enable the feature and click Save
2. Re-import the Succession Data Model via Provisioning

What does this feature do specifically?

1. In the case when the “child (custom-string)” is a Foundation Object and the field criteria is NOT set, then this setting will deactivate the filtering of the “parent” object field. If the field-criteria is set on the child field, this setting won’t be respected.
2. In the case when the “child (custom-string)” is a Generic Object (or migrated FOs),regardless if the field-criteria is set or not, the filtering of the child object field will be deactivated.

What can be the unexpected outcome of enabling this feature?

• If you have configured a custom-string field as a Custom MDF Object, where the object is associated (as a child) to another parent object, and you have correctly defined the field-criteria for the child fields configuration (via XML or Busness Configuration UI) the field will not still filter (please refer to the above behaviour number 2)

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