Custom data for external references

[schmunk42]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
My use-case is to track IDs of external systems to identify eg. projects, customers, etc...

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to have a possiblity to add custom data to a record, eg. as JSON.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Saving it in the comments 🙊

Additional context
Continued from #683 (comment)

[kevinpapst]

Interested in contributing a PR?

[schmunk42]

Can't really promise it, since I have no experience with the underlying software.

But some technical questions, about how to proceed:

• generate migration (db-changes) to add a custom_data field
• create a CustomDataTrait
• update forms, API

Would this be the way to go?

[kevinpapst]

Yes + unit / system tests.
If you start with a draft for the Trait and the entities I can jump in and we work together on the branch. The API is a bit tricky if you don't know the libs.
The migration is fairly easy, you can use the code from last one where I added the color field to the customer/projects/activities entities.

[kevinpapst]

ping @schmunk42 ready for testing #871

[schmunk42]

Thank you for the ping. I am quite busy atm, but will report, when I find time to test this.
Was looking good on first sight.

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