Extending “Sales Line Type” enum in Business Central 16.0

azharsaeedkhan

i am working on BC version 16.0, as in BC 16.0 option field is replaced with enum, as you can see here (
) that i am extending a "Sales Line Type" enum and adding a new value to it. But when i inspect the "Sale Line" table it is showing that the field Type is option and not an enum (
). So the value i have added to enum is not displayed.

How can i extend "Sales Line Type"? am i doing something wrong?

azharsaeedkhan

@DenSter this should be reported to microsoft on github.
but for now i have found a workaround, by going through the standard code i have found this

the tooltip text i was looking at was not of the field Type but of the field FilteredTypeField, so this inspired me do the following changes in the pageextension

and boom, it worked out

Juhl

Respect number range as always.
If per tenant use 50000 instead of 6.

Think what happens if MS add a new value with number 6 😉

azharsaeedkhan

@Juhl sorry about that i was supposed to share the other screenshot (Updated now).
But it doesn't work like that, i have added multiple values in the range >=50000 but no success.

DenSter

That is supposed to work. The enum is extensible, and it looks like you are extending it correctly. I just tried in a new sandbox container and it is also not showing up for me. Maybe what is missing is the additional tablerelationship. You're adding a value to the enum, maybe BC is expecting an explicit tablerelationship for that value. See here for an example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-extensible-enums

If you can't make it work with an additional table relationship, I would submit an issue in GitHub

azharsaeedkhan

Hi @DenSter!
i have already added additional table relationship

azharsaeedkhan

@DenSter this should be reported to microsoft on github.
but for now i have found a workaround, by going through the standard code i have found this

the tooltip text i was looking at was not of the field Type but of the field FilteredTypeField, so this inspired me do the following changes in the pageextension

and boom, it worked out

DenSter

Glad you were able to make that work, and thanks for posting your solution. I had also tried adding the tablerelationship and found that it didnt fix it for me either

You can report the issue yourself here: https://github.com/microsoft/AL/issues