What are Custom Components?

Custom components allow you to modify the Bigin system to suit your requirements. For example, the components help you to collect, organize, and analyze customer information for various business purposes. The Bigin system contains pre-defined components, which are common to all business types but the custom components enable you to extend your unique business needs by adding them to toppings.

The custom components include fields, buttons, links, related lists, and widgets. By constructing a topping, you can add these custom components to Bigin without disturbing the existing system. You can find the custom components inside the Components section of the developer console while creating a topping.

Visibility on the UI

On the developer console, you can identify the following components:

Customization Fields

You can view the Customization Fields by navigating to Components > Fields.

  1. The Module List drop-down lets you select a pre-defined module from the list of modules on which you can create the custom fields.
  2. The New Custom Field button lets you create a new field on the selected module.
  3. The table displays the list of custom fields created on the selected module.

Customization Links and Buttons

You can view the Customization Links and Buttons by navigating to Components > Links & Buttons.

  1. The Module List drop-down lets you select a pre-defined module from the list of modules on which you can create the custom fields.
  2. The Create New Link button lets you create a new link on the Details Page of the selected module.
  3. The Create New Button button lets you create a new button on the selected module.
  4. The table displays a list of custom links and buttons created on the selected module.

Add Related Lists

You can view Related Lists and Widgets by navigating to Components > Related Details.

  1. The Module List drop-down lets you select a pre-defined module from the list of modules on which you can create the custom fields.
  2. The Add Widgets button lets you create a custom widget on the selected module.
  3. The Add Related List button lets you create a custom related list on the selected module.
  4. The table displays a list of widgets and related lists created on the selected module.

On the Bigin UI, you can place the custom components on a specific page or specific page view of the selected module. For more information, see Placement of Custom Components on the Bigin UI.