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Hey! Does anyone know if it's possible to add fields to a custom record that belongs to another Bundle or SuiteApp via SDF?

E.g. imagine that the custom record by default has fields 1, 2, 3 and I want to add fields 4, 5 from my own SDF deployment.

Yes you can add new field to records from a bundle in the UI
Even if the record is locked

Thanks for the response!

Yeah, I managed to do that. But can I do that from my SDF project?

Why not import the object and add the fields in to the XML and re-deploy and see if the changes stick :wink:

Hey NElliot :smile:

I've tried that as well with some success, specifically by following this: <https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/netsuite/ns-online-help/section_1536775078.html#Related-Topics>

So what I did was to add `bundleid=123` wherever `scriptid` was defined within brackets as mentioned in the guide and then updated my `manifest.xml` to mirror these dependencies accordingly.

Unfortunately this specific record has some `translationcollection` object related to it which hinders me from deploying it. As per the following message.
```An error occurred during manifest validation.
Details: All term references must be to terms in translationcollection objects in the same SuiteCloud project. Terms cannot be referenced in other SuiteCloud projects, bundles, or SuiteApps.
File: ~/manifest.xml```

What happens if you remove those items from the manifest, presumably it complains that you have not included them?

I can bypass that by removing the translation from the object though (not ideal). Then I end up with this. So the import/re-deploy dance is not agreeing with me.

```An error occured during validation of Custom Objects against the account
Details: An object with script ID customrecord_example already exists```


It's important for me to only add (append) new fields to the already existing object. I don't want to replace anything that's in place.

I suspect because it's locked you cannot deploy then.
I never envisioned it would be to be honest.

This specific record is actually not locked, the other records in that bundle is.