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Issue with ShowMandatory = true Property for Enum Fields in Business Central

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Dear Dynamics Community,

I am currently attempting to use the page property ShowMandatory = true to mark an enum field as required on a page. While this property functions correctly for fields of type Code, it does not appear to have any effect when applied to enum fields.

Is there a known limitation regarding the use of ShowMandatory with enum field types? If so, I would greatly appreciate any suggestions or workarounds to achieve similar functionality for enum fields.

Thank you in advance for your support and guidance.

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  • Teagen Boll Profile Picture
    Teagen Boll 40 on at
    Issue with ShowMandatory = true Property for Enum Fields in Business Central
    That might be tricky because ShowMandatory is just looking to see if a field isn't blank then displaying a red asterisk.
     
    You could try using the property NotBlank instead and it will also add the red asterisk and also validate the field. You could then try having one value be None like this:
    enum 50121 Loyalty
    {
        Extensible = true;
        
        value(0; None) { }
        value(1; Bronze) { }
        value(2; Silver) { }
        value(3; Gold)
        {
            Caption = 'Gold Customer';
        }
    }
     
    Then try using either ShowMandatory or NotBlank to see if that flags it as mandatory/validates the field.

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