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Cannot add a New Contact in the Contact lookup in a Case.

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When adding a contact via the lookup field to an Account or Opportunity, you have the option to add a new contact if the person you want is not yet listed in Dynamics 365.

However on a Case you cannot do this, which is frustrating for the Service team as they need to navigate away from the case to add in the contact, then come back.

Specifically, this is what we see for an opporunity:

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When it comes to a Case, I see the following:

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Is there a setting to allow this?

Note: I can see that in the old web interface you bring up "more records" and can add a new contact.

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    Anthony Dong Profile Picture
    on at

    Hi, 

    Thanks for reporting this issue. Yes, we can replicate it in local environment. In UCI, there is no option to add new Contact in the Lookup field of Case entity 

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    In Classic (old) web, there will be "New" button under "More records"
    pastedimage1595394090873v2.png

    This should be a product bug, 

    we suggest you to contact Microsoft Support team to confirm it. 

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    Pankaj Gogoi Profile Picture
    3,177 on at

    Hi Scott,

    Please check this links, it seems to be issue with case entity.

    community.dynamics.com/.../new-button-is-missing-on-contact-lookup

    support.microsoft.com/.../service-update-78-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-9-1-0

    Best Regards

    PG

  • Community Member Profile Picture
    on at

    Good morning,

    I have this issue in current version on case form where new contact is missing

    2021 wave release 1

    9.2.2.1041.00172

    this is on the case main form using UCI

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    ScottColbourne Profile Picture
    125 on at

    I got this fixed using Microsoft Support.

    From memory the fix is simply to remove the contact lookup field from the form and then re add it.

    It then goes onto the form with the background functionality to add a new contact

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    on at

    Thanks Scott,

    this worked a treat

    Una

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