Bryan and I pushed up some new code and some custom reports. We then spent the rest of the session talking about ways to virtually extend the functionality for clients. We went over some of the existing pieces such as black box code, flex grid tie-ins, parent attributes, sub attributes, web page settings (JSON or object storage), and then we settled on real in-line database extensions.

We did a lot of drawing and talked about how we could virtually extend any table without hurting any other corporation (super light and non intrusive). This concept allows us to virtually use the custom tables (custom_numeric, custom_text, custom_dates, custom_json) and create new add-on columns for almost any database table. I showed Bryan how easy it was and we even when through some mock-ups (text and drawings based on scenarios). The nice things about these custom tables is that the data could be a specific data type (a real number, a real date, a real string/characters, or a JSON object). Plus the tables are much smaller than normal flex grid tie-in records.

Here is some older research on custom extensions, real in-line database extensions, and custom columns on a per table basis. Aka - the big brother of the flex grid tie-ins.
https://data0.adilas.biz/top_secret/developers_notebook_home.cfm?sort=asc&q=in%2Dline%20database%2Bdatabase%20extension