Tech Tip: Changing the data type of a custom attribute

When updating your object model, many of the changes are simple such as adding new attributes to existing types, adding new types, and changing display names of attributes. These kinds of changes can be done directly via the normal check-out, make the change, check-in approach. The Type System in Click Portal will gracefully accommodate the change. Not all types of change are that easy though. The one that I wan to spend time on in this post surfaced in two separate instances this week. It is when you wish to change the data type of an attribute.