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About Custom Objects

Most record types are provisioned for you when Customer Care sets up your company to use Oracle CRM On Demand Life Sciences Edition. For more information, see Record Types for Oracle CRM On Demand Life Sciences Edition. Custom objects are record types that you can use to meet your own specialized business requirements, for example, for business functionality that is not provided directly by Oracle CRM On Demand. Custom objects 01 through 10, (Custom Object 01-10) are provisioned by default. Additional custom object record types (Custom Object 11-15), must be provisioned for your company by Customer Care before you can configure them for Oracle CRM On Demand Life Sciences Edition.

NOTE:  Provisioning of more than 15 custom objects (up to a maximum of 40 objects) requires special permission. Contact Customer Care for more information.

Custom Objects 01, 02, and 03 have individual privileges. The privileges for the remaining custom objects are grouped. There is a privilege for Custom Objects 04 through 10, a privilege for Custom Objects 11 through 15, and so on.

In Oracle CRM On Demand Life Sciences Edition, you can use custom objects with the following record types:

• Account
• Activity
• Address
• Allocation 
• Business Plan
• Contact
• Contact Best Time
• Contact State License
• Event
• HCP Contact Allocation
• Inventory Audit Report
• Inventory Period 
• Messaging Plan
• Messaging Plan Item
• Messaging Plan Item Relations
• Message Response
• Objective
• Order
• Order Item
• Plan Accounts
• Plan Contact
• Plan Opportunity
• Sample Disclaimer
• Sample Inventory 
• Sample Lot 
• Sample Transaction 
• Signature
• Smart Call
• Solution
• Transaction Item 

For more information about custom objects, see Oracle CRM On Demand Online Help.