I hope SF got to read it, but no comments so far!

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I agree.  The DDT is positioned to be a metadata engine available in development and at runtime.

In a post that got trashed (along with with the one I had replied to, from Pertti, and replies from Trent and Chan, when the forum indexing went south), I suggested that xCase (efficient ERD design, extensible attributes) would be an ideal feed into the DDT, assuming there were an API available in development and at runtime.  We've been doing something like this for years in the VFP framework we use (Visual ProMatrix), and the productivity gains, both in design and maintenance, are incredible.

It would be great to be able to create a "Custom Field Property" skeleton in the BO Mapper. This way, the dialog box can ask a series of questions and then create the formation of the property (with attributes) and the we can add any additional code there.

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