Dynamic Dropdown of Year Dates?

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Posted on by willnmzo

As the title says I'm looking to implement a dropdown of years(eg. 2020,2021,2022) the requirement needs only the current, previous, and next year to be available. My first thought was implementing a PCF dropdown that could dynamically update every year. I'm wondering if anyone has any other ways to implement this that I'm missing.

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Wahaj Rashid 11,321 on at

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RE: Dynamic Dropdown of Year Dates?

Hi,

As far as I know, there is no control in Dynamics 365 that can be used for this purpose. PCF control seems to be a fair idea.

However another approach is to use a lookup:

Create a custom entity 'Years'.

Create following records:

Label: 2020

Value: -1 (for previous Years)

Label: 2021

Value: 0 (current year)

Label: 2022

Value: 1 (next year)

Add this lookup to your entity.

The drawback for this approach is to you have to update the labels every year.

You can also create an Entity to load All years (starting form 2019). Then create a view to only list data for Prev. Current and Next Year (using date filters and OR operator).

Finally, you can also create an optionset, add all year and filter the values onload of the form (using JavaScript).

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meelamri 13,216 User Group Leader on at

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RE: Dynamic Dropdown of Year Dates?

Hi,

I think you will be able to use a PCF Control.

There is a control that applies to the DATE-ONLY field, it's a simple Year picker:
https://github.com/delegateas/PCF

You can also implement your own PCF control that supports text and number fields.

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MehranBre 732 on at

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RE: Dynamic Dropdown of Year Dates?

hi willnmzo,

you can create a option set with three options names: "Last Year", "This Year", "Next Year" with values

1, 2, 3

and when you are use this data compare this with record createdon date for get a valid selected year.

it seems very simple for you (in control and collect data) and also for your clients!

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