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Posted on by Ashay Shingornikar

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hi,

when I am trying to add an Image field in an entity, as soon as I select datatype as Image, expected behavior is automatically schema name should change to entityimage.

But in my case, I tried with existing entity, and new entity , new solution, everything. but the schema name doesnt change.

Because of which, when I go to Form, Display properties, Show image check box is disabled.

Any suggestions.

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Ashay

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Hi Ashay,

I did some tests in my OOB environment, seems schema name and 'Show image in the form' don't matter.

1. At first, I created a custom entity, no image field, also the 'Show image in the form' is disabled. We can see there is no image near the record name.

2. Then I created a image type field named 'ImageFieldTest', the schema name doesn't change to 'entityimage', it is 'new_ImageFieldTest'.

3. After saving this field, in this custom Entity's Entity Definition, the 'Primary Image' change to 'ImageFieldTest'. At this time, the 'Show image in the form' is still disabled, but the image is appearing now.

More information:

System entities that support images will already have an Image field. You can choose whether to display data in this field as the image for the record by setting this field to [None] or Default Image.

For custom entities you must first create an image field. Each entity can have only one image field. After you create one, you can change this setting to set the primary image.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customerengagement/on-premises/customize/edit-entities#enable-or-disable-entity-options

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customerengagement/on-premises/customize/types-of-fields#image-fields

Hope above can help!

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Ashay Shingornikar 135 on at

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Thanks. It worked. Certainly this is not mentioned in Microsoft Dynamics documentation. Because videos present online follows those steps of enable checkbox and all.

Thanks so much this worked in my case.

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TamaraH 20 on at

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Is this also working for system entities were the checkbox is disables (for example the system entity "Bookable resources"?

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Al Iggs on at

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Hi Tamara, what are you trying to achieve?

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TamaraH 20 on at

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Thanks for your answer Alexander, but I already kow that it is not possible to have this functionality in for example the entity Bookable resource.

Image fields

Use image fields to display a single image per record in the application. Each entity can have one image field. You can add an image field to custom entities but not to system entities. The following system entities have an image field. Those marked with an asterisk are enabled by default.

IMAGE FIELDS

Account * Article Campaign

Case Competitor * Connection

Contact * Contract Currency

Email Server Profile Goal Invoice

Lead * Mailbox Opportunity Product

Order Organization Product *

Publisher * Queue Resource *

Sales Literature Territory User*

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Just guessed you wanted to have schedule board images for non-contact/user resources....

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TamaraH 20 on at

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Yes, is that possible?

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It is! :-)

Example: Create a new image field on Facility/Equipment, declare as Primary Image and set the form to „Show Image“. This allows you to upload the image.

Next look at your board's Retrieve Resource Query and duplicate the existing logic to the facility entity:

<link-entity name="account" from="accountid" to="accountid" link-type="outer">

<attribute name="accountid" alias="accountid" groupby="true"/>

<attribute name="entityimage_url" alias="accountimagepath" groupby="true"/>

</link-entity>

<link-entity name="equipment" from="equipmentid" to="msdyn_facilityequipmentid" link-type="outer">

<attribute name="equipmentid" alias="msdyn_facilityequipmentid" groupby="true"/>

<attribute name="lx_entityimage_url" alias="equipmentimagepath" groupby="true"/>

</link-entity>

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