Using custom centers for even greater control over the UI

For some clients, you might find that you need to create a special solution, maybe with lots of SuiteBuilder custom configurations such as records, fields, and lists included in it, and maybe you’ll add scripts or workflows to that mix. When this happens, we typically want to set those screens aside in a special way, making it clear to users how they can access the special functionality, and that’s when we create a custom center.

For instance, let’s use this screenshot of the Documents menu as a reference:

Figure 10.6 – The default Documents menu with templates from NetSuite

The built-in Documents center is a container for everything under that menu. The tab for this center is at the top, labeled Documents in this example. The center categories are Files, Templates, and Mail Merge. The center links are the topics under each category, such as Email Templates under the Templates category...