SBarnes wrote:A nice to have and I realise this might create a fair bit of work, would be if you could define it in the plugin editor when the field is added as I was hoping to avoid code. I can add a service request if that will help?
By all means!
I had intended to have our standard maintenance business logic pattern to have a create from template function which may overlap this default custom field improvement you're asking for here.
To give an example as to how this would work, Inventory Maintenance would have a checkbox on it somewhere indicating the item is a template item. Template items are excluded from everything (you can't sell them, select them in searches, reports, the works) except for when creating a new item from a template item. The ribbon would have a new button "New from Template" which is a drop-down list showing you all the items which are marked as template items - this would essentially just load the template item, then copy it - including custom field values.
And that is a nice segue into highlighting an existing backlogged improvement relating to custom fields and copying -
Add checkbox "Copy" for custom fields.
Hopefully I can make all 3 improvements play nice together.