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Posted on by Sujith Sukumar

Hello everyone,

I am working in a custom model, where I need to use an already extended Standard Table (which was extended in another project).

Eg. In a model 'Custom Project Contract' , I have extended the standard table PSACONTRACTLINEITEMS and added a field named 'TransDate'.

Now I am working on another model where I need to used the TransDate field. How to achieve this ? I can refer the first model in my second project, but how to add PSACONTRACTLINEITEMS.extention to the project.

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if you want to use fields from Custom Project Contract' in your new model, then new model should have a reference to "Custom Project Contract'" model.

Project has a model, so if you project belongs to new model you cannot add objects from "Custom Project Contract'" to it, however, you don't need to, you can use objects without adding them to a project.

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The project is used to gather objects that you create or modify. If you want to use some object, you don't need to add it to the project. And you can't add objects from other models to your project.

As Ievgen wrote, you can use any objects from models/packages that your model/package is referencing. This applies to using MS objects and custom objects.

By the way, adding a field called TransDate to a standard table is against best practices. You should always use your prefix when naming such fields, or you will get a conflict if MS adds a field with the same name on that table. This conflict would break installation of MS update, as well as require additional work to prevent data loss / corruption.

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Hi Sujith,

As mentioned, If you want to use custom field 'TransDate' in PSACONTRACTLINEITEMS extension table, You must add reference to your 'Custom Project Contract' model in new model.

In class, You can directly call the field.

In addition, you can take a look at this : https://allaboutmsdynamics.wordpress.com/2019/02/18/d365-ax7example-of-delegates-for-solving-dependencies-between-models/

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