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Auto Format Expression of a standard field

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Posted on by Magicrevette 215

Hello,

I have seen that the Property AutoFormatExpression can no longer be customized in Business Central. It's a shame, because it's property that concerns only the way the data is displayed. And it was very useful. We used it a lot in NAV 2018.

Do you know any way, any woraround, to modify the auto format expression property of a table field ?

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    The way to do this I've found is to do PageExtensions. Sadly you also cannot set this property using a 'modify' on the existing page control, however you can hide an existing control and replace it with a new one where you can set AutoFormatType and AutoFormatExpression.

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    It's the first time I read I can "hide an existing control". What does that mean exactly ? visible = false ?

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    Yes.

    You may also consider setting Enabled to false. Setting ApplicationArea to something unused may hide the control completely, preventing users from adding it back to a List as a column.

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    Magicrevette 215 on at

    Ok thank you. But the problem I see here is if the field with the autoformatexpression in my standard object is used by another field or procedure in the standard object, I can't modify the code in this standard object to call my new field instead of the old one.

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    Welcome to AL : D

    I think maybe there is an event trigger somewhere regarding field formatting that you could intercept.

    Try playing with Codeunit 45 AutoFormatManagement, and find out where the system calls those functions. I seem to recall an event somewhere that had table/field id parameters.

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