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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

Hi,

i am trying to add a ReferenceGroup control on a form. For any other control type this works easily with the following code: 

FormStringControl   strCtrl;

strCtrl = element.design().addControl(FormControlType::String, 'tmp');
strCtrl.extendedDataType(extendedTypeNum(CustAccount));

If i try this for a ReferenceGroup control, the control is added (right click -> personalize does show it, although it doesn't appear on the form), but the form is empty

FormReferenceGroupControl       ctrl;

ctrl = element.design().addControl(FormControlType::ReferenceGroup, 'tmp');
ctrl.extendedDataType(extendedTypeNum(SalesTaker));

Adding the ReferenceGroup manually on the form with the EDT set to SalesTaker works fine, so i guess im missing something?

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Add ReferenceGroup X++

    Specifying the replacementFieldGroup doesn't help either, but actually i am more close to the issue now:

    I just wrote a simple job with one dialog field. This does actually work fine, as expected

       Dialog              dialog      = new Dialog();

       dialog.addField(identifierStr(SalesTaker));

       dialog.run();

    The difference is, that in DialogField\init FormBuildControls are used. So i just modified the init like this:

    public void init()

    {

       FormBuildReferenceGroupControl  buildCtrl;

       buildCtrl       = element.form().addControl(FormControlType::ReferenceGroup, 'tmp');

       buildCtrl.extendedDataType(extendedTypeNum(SalesTaker));

       super();

    }

    That does actually work, BUT if i try to modify the control after super(), the control isn't updated.

    public void init()

    {

       FormBuildReferenceGroupControl  buildCtrl;

       FormReferenceGroupControl       ctrl;    

       buildCtrl       = element.form().addControl(FormControlType::ReferenceGroup, 'tmp');

       buildCtrl.extendedDataType(extendedTypeNum(SalesTaker));

       super();

       ctrl            = element.design().controlName('tmp');

       ctrl.extendedDataType(extendedTypeNum(DirPartyRecId));    

       //ctrl.resolveReference();

    }

    Calling resolveReference() does open the correct lookup, but lookupReference() results in an infolog message.

    There seems to be no way to update the reference or i didn't find it yet :(

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Add ReferenceGroup X++

    Please review following link for more details related to ReferenceGroup Control.

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg845085.aspx

    Please update if this information helps you.

  • Kenny Saelen Profile Picture
    Kenny Saelen on at
    RE: Add ReferenceGroup X++

    I know you shouldn't have to do this, but have you tried filling in the property that specifies the field group in the relating table.

    (By default the kernel takes the AutoIdentification group of the referenced table, but try to put it in the property of the control)

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