The Meta Field is a feature implemented since version 0.9.1 and can be used in order to customize information of specific project. In many companies some specific fields may be useful in Requirement Form or Task Form, and PLANdora offer this feature to help them. To create a Meta Field, enter into PLANdora using the user 'root' (only root is allowed to create a Meta Field), then, click the link 'Meta Field Form'.

1. Choose a name for the Meta Field. This name is used by PLANdora as the label to this field into GUI (Requirement, Task forms, etc)
2. Select the type of Meta Field, e.g., the visual format of Meta Field: A simple text box field, a plain list of values, a list of values from a data base query, etc
3. Select what GUI this Meta Field should be used (Requirement Form, Task Form, etc)
4. Select the project and category related. Project is a mandatory field but the category can be set to empty value and means that current Meta Field is related with all categories of project selected.
5. Write the source of data to be used by the Meta Field. This 'Domain' field have different approaches for each Meta Field type
1. Text Box: The content should be a list of attributes separated by pipe ("|"), where the first token is the max number of characters, the second token is current enable status (TRUE or FALSE) and the last token is the default value. For example, if the content of this field is '10|TRUE|abc' means that, the maxlenght of field is 10 and the field appears enable in the GUI with the default value "abc";
2. Combo Box: The content should be an arbitrary list of key/values (in pairs) separated by pipe ("|"). For example, if the content is "1|Apple|2|Orange|3|Melon" means that the GUI should format this field like a combo box (dropdown list) with 3 elements (the fruit names) with the respective indexes;
3. SQL Combo Box: The content should be a query of PLANdora data base with 2 columns (the additional columns will be ignored). The columns are considered the ID and name for a combo box. For example, if the content is "select id, name from department" means that the GUI will present a combo box with all department names from PLANdora DEPARTMENT data base table.

6. After that, the form destination will come with a new field add into the button of screen.