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String form control changes to ComboBox when selected

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In the Free text invoice form (CustFreeInvoice) there is an interesting GUI trick that I would like to completely understand and perhaps replicate.

The Number sequence group field in the Header's General tab first appears as a FormStringControl, but when it is selected for editing it transforms to a ComboBox to properly serve the corresponding foreign key field.

I guess this is happening for performance reasons, i.e. to avoid unnecessary ComboBox lookup initialization when the field is not going to be used; is that right?

I found the FormStringControl created under TabMain / TabPageDetails / TabDetails / HeaderViewTabPage / FastTab / InvoiceFastTab / GroupPosting group; but I wasn't able to locate the ComboBox definition.

Any idea on how the ComboBox control is instantiated, how this mechanism works and how to replicate it?

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    Sukrut Parab Profile Picture
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    The numberSequenceGroup drop down  on the free text invoice header is simply coming from EDT NumberSequneceGroupId which is defined on the field numberSequenceGroup  from custInvoiceTable.

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    huijij Profile Picture
    19,813 on at

    Hi Yiannis,

    The following blog declarate How to Add a Lookup Form to a FormStringControl:

    msdynamics.nevoitech.com/.../

    regards

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    Thank you both, Sukrut & Judy, I realize this is standard functionality.

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