Is there a way to add a custom field?

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Has anyone had any success adding a custom field? If so, how did you go about creating it and are you able to run reports from it?

The company I work for sells plants and trees directly to landscapers. We are still using Quickbooks as we are slowly implementing Business Central. We currently have a custom field in Quickbooks for our Landscapers, "Job Names". There can be numerous invoices associated with each job name. I would like to bring over that same feature but have been unable to find a way to do so.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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You need to create a table extension (in your local sandbox) and add the custom fields you want to that table. Then, you can deply the extension to your production tenant and you will see the newly added fields.

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Thank you for responding. Just to clarify, by creating a table extension, do you mean creating a custom extension into the market place and deploying into production?

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No, no need to go on the marketplace. You can create an extension for your single tenant/customer.

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Understood. Thanks for the help!

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other flavor of dynamics allow user to create field through the web page on the spot. why does business central don't have the same feature?

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Because create new fields on a table is a developer task and I agree that it should do by a developer with developer tools.

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do you also agree that dynamics 365 for finance and operation should have this feature on the UI?

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Hi,

I have a below scenario:

1. I have a extension which named "extension A". it doesn't have a field "test field".

2. there is a third party extension which named "extension B", it has a field "test field".

3. so is there a way use my extension A to write a value for field "test field" to extension B in dynamics 365 business central.

Thanks in Advance!

Thanks,

Ming

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Add extension B in the dependency section in the app.json file in your extension A project.

A can see B objects only if it’s dependent from B.

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it works, Thank you so much.

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