I was just wondering. Lets say I have a BO mapped to a table with 12 fields

is there a way to have the BO only map to 5

thanks Brad

Hi Guys,

I'm new to SF and most of our tables have columns that are maintained by triggers, e.g. date created, last updated etc and it was my intention to simply create views which excluded these columns. My concern is (with respect) this seems pretty 'obvious' way of doing things but it wasn't mentioned in response to the original question. Does this mean there are issues with using views as bo data sources and have matching stored procedures when filling bo's at run time.

Cheers, Peter

No, the structure of DataTable inside the business objects is completely flexible... it can have extra columns, or even not all of the columns that are defined on a business object.  We have several users who are building their business objects off of views and using stored procedures to both select the data into the business objects and save the data back to the multiple tables.