Field is editable in one form, but not another

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Hey All!

I noticed in my instance of AX that if I open up a product from the "Products" form, it takes me to a detailed view of the product where I can edit the "Description" (Form: EcoResProductDetails).

However, if I look up the same product from the "Released Products" form and bring up the details, I cannot edit the "Description" and it seems locked (Form: EcoResProductDetailsExtended).

I have compared both "description" elements from each form and everything seems to be alike, including the DataSource and the DataField. There does not seem to be a custom Edit Method involved and it looks like its just base AX functionality.

What should I check? What am I missing?

Thanks again for all your help guys!

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Mea_ 60,284 on at

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Hi Pedro Coelho,

Description field belongs to EcoResProductTranslation table. On EcoResProductDetails data source EcoResProductDetails has property AllowEdit = Yes, on EcoResProductDetailsExtended AllowEdit = No, so it's not editable.

To change description you can click "translations" button on Product tab.

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Hi Pedro,

Before going further, this is standard design from Microsoft. If you want to edit the translation from Release product form you can do it through translations button. The button will show a form to edit the description and product name and tag them with language.

Back to your question, Please check EcoResProductTranslation data source of each of form. In EcoResProductDetails the data source is editable and the other way around for EcoResProductDetailsExtended, the data source is not editable in the form.

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On the EcoResProductDetailsExtended form, the Description field is set to AllowEdit = Yes.

Still doesnt seem to be working.

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DavidGunawan 1,381 on at

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Please set it on DataSource level not in the field level.

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David, it looks like the I was able to make the field editable, but my changes are not being saved in the system for some reason. Any ideas?

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DavidGunawan 1,381 on at

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What do you mean your changes? Is it changes of the object or product description?

If the changes of object unable to be saved, I guess your environment doesn't have development license. But As I know, You only unable to create or modify class object if It doesn't have the license.

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Hi Pedro,

I also follow ievgen and David's suggestion to enable the "AllowEdit" for EcoResProductTranslation datasource.

After doing this, I also encounter same problem with you, only can modify but can't save description.

I checked that the write method of EcoResProductTranslation datasource is blank.

After add back "Super();", description can save after modified.

Please see whether it is same in your side or not.

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I;m sorry Mike, I'm not understanding what you are trying to say. Do I have to add a method for the "description" text to be saved?

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Mea_ 60,284 on at

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Hi Pedro Coelho,

I think Mike trying to say that there is no super() call on write() of EcoResProductTranslation data source on EcoResProductDetailsExtended and without it your changes won't be saved to DB.

So obviously you nee to add super(), probably you can compare methods on this datasource between two forms and make them similar, if it something that you are not familiar with (x++ development) you should ask developer to do this.

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So I added super() to the write() method for the EcoResProductTranslation datasource.

But can someone tell me what that is doing and why its working?

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