Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition

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Since we aren't using a special create form to create new vehicles, SCM will just add a record using the current form view. If the form is in the Grid view, it will just add a new line to the grid. This isn't great as it won't usually have all the required fields when creating a new record. So, we should tell the form to change to the details view when a record is created.

To do this, right-click on the method for the main table (ConVMSVehicleTable, in this case) and choose Override | Create.

Write the following code:

public void create(boolean _append = false){    element.viewOptionHelper().setViewOption(FormViewOption::Details);    super(_append);}

This should always be done when we are not using a specialized form to create new ...