Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Creating a modal form

Often, people who are not familiar with computers and software tend to get lost among open application windows. The same can be applied to Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Frequently, a user opens a form, clicks a button to open another one, and then goes back to the first one without closing the second form. Sometimes this happens intentionally, sometimes not, but the result is that the second form gets hidden behind the first one and the user starts wondering why it is not possible to close or edit the first form.

Although it is not best practice, sometimes such issues can be easily solved by making the child form a modal window. In other words, the second form always stays on top of the first one until it ...