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

Writing a form so that we can see the current and previous state of the data

The following steps show us how we can write a form to see the current and previous state of the data:

1. What we have so far is great, but we would also like to give our users access to see the state of the record. In order to do this, a new form is required. Create a form named ConVMSVehicleOdometerTable. Also, create a Display menu item to reference this form.
2. Drag the ConVMSVehicleOdometerTable table to the Data Sources node and change the Max Access Right property to View.
3. Override the form's init method with the following code:

public void init(){ if (element.args().dataset() != tableNum(ConVMSVehicleTable)) { throw  error(Error::missingRecord(tableStr(ConVMSVehicleTable))); ...