Viewing overlays
To view overlay objects, you must use Best Practice Customization mode of Developer Studio.
To view overlay objects (except Form view overlay or Field overlay)
- In Developer Studio, open the appropriate object list.
The overlays for active links, active link guides, escalations, filters, filter guides, forms, local applications, menus, packing lists, and web services have overlapping blue and gray squares on their icons.
For example, the following image is the icon of a form overlay:
- Double-click the overlay object in the object list.
The overlay object is opened in the appropriate editor.
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To view the customization type for the AR System object
- In Developer Studio, open the appropriate object list.
- Open the AR System server object in the editor. The title bar in the editor displays the object name and its customization type. See the following image:
Customization type displayed in object editor
To view the overlay type for the object properties
You can view the overlay details for object properties in the following interfaces:
- Overlay details in tooltip
The properties of a form and its workflow objects are available inside separate panels in the Definitions tab. When you hover on the object definition, Developer Studio displays a tooltip for the overlay type and the customizations that have been made to the property. The following figure shows a tooltip:
Overlay tooltip
- Overlay details in panel title
When the panels are collapsed, the overlay details for the properties are displayed as part of the panel title as shown in the following figure:
Overlay details at a glance
- Overlay Information column
The Overlay Information column for Group Permissions, Subadministrator, and Indexes displays the overlay details as shown in the following figures. (The Overlay Information column does not display any information for custom objects.)
Group Permission overlay
Subadministrator Permissions overlay
Index overlay
Associated Forms
To view a view overlay
In the form editor, open the form that contains the overlay form view. Overlay views have the following icon along with the form name:
To view a Field overlay
- In the form editor, open the form that contains the overlay field.
- Select the form view that contains the overlay field.
In the Outline tab, overlapping blue and gray squares appear on the icons of all overlay fields. For example, see the icon of the *Request ID8 field in the following figure:
- In the Outline tab, select the appropriate overlay field to display its properties in the *Properties8 tab.
To display the view overlay marker
A field that is added to a view overlay has a special marker that identifies it as part of the view overlay.
- Open the form in Best Practice Customization mode.
- Click Layout > Show customization type.
Fields added to the view overlay show a special icon. For example, the Assigned To and Modified Date fields in the following figure show the marker indicating that these fields are added to a view overlay:
To view the value in the View Customization column of Outline view
- Open the form in Best Practice Customization mode.
- Open the Outline view of the form.
The value in the View Customization column indicates whether a field is added to a view overlay.
See the following screen. 
If the value in the View Customization column is True, it indicates that the field is added to the view overlay.
To view the view overlay icon
- Open the form in Best Practice Customization mode.
- Open the Outline view of the form.
The fields in the Field ID list of the Outline view show a special icon for the fields that are added to a view overlay.
The following figure shows that the field that has Field ID 1 is added to the view overlay. 