(Our previous blog post, entitled The Cost of Custom Interfaces, is good pre-requisite reading for this one. Not necessary, but perhaps helpful. Check it out.) At a high level, and all nuances not considered, let’s look at a typical process for custom interface development: Document detailed requirements analysis Identify all tables and fields tables to
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