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#HumpDayHacks – Avoiding Validation Chaos

Have you used the AZ AL Dev Tools New AL File Wizard to create objects? It’s probably as fast as my cats running into the kitchen when they hear the pantry door open.  Quick, efficient, and surprisingly satisfying.

But speed isn’t everything, especially when it comes to creating pages in AL for Business Central. If you’re not careful, that lightening-fast setup can lead to subtle issues that only show up later when your page doesn’t behave quite the way you expect. One of the most overlooked culprits? Field Order.

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Working with Fieldgroups

Last week we had a fairly straight-forward request to add the “Address 2” field to the Ship-To Address drop down. Microsoft Learn documentation describes Field Groups as table or table extension objects used to define the fields to display in a drop-down control on pages that use the table.

It should have been a simple table extension

fieldgroups

    {​​

        addlast(DropDown; "Address 2") {​​ }​​

    }​​

After making this code change Address 2 still wasn’t showing up in the drop down. So what were we missing?

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