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Should you always avoid putting label on form control as per best practice?

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Posted on by _MGP 506

What about the case of a form with simple datasource that joins to the DirPartyTable.

In the context of the form the table always joins to (say) VendTable.

However, the client wants the form field label to display "Vendor" and not "Name" for the data point DirPartyTable.Name.

When a display method is giving you the data (instead of data source) you can duplicate the display method and return an inherited EDT with different label. 

But with joining tables to datasources what can you do for best practices? Create a view? Seems like overkill when there is 1 field and a label property sitting there.

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    _MGP 506 on at

    "But the bigger best practice fail (not error) is showing Name in the form (AX 2012)."

    You mean displaying the "Name" or displaying the column heading "Name"?

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    But this isn't picked up on best practices check. Why is it a best practice fail? What if the client wants it on the same form? The account number is not that informative so I can kind of understand, especially if they want to filter e.g. filter Purchase orders on Vendor name etc. Thanks for your help.

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    _MGP 506 on at

    Thanks Crispin!

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