There are several properties on the different objects within Dynamics 365 FO you will have probably very little contact with.
One of these for me was the property „Group prompt“ which you will find on Table fields.
I stumbled upon this property while i was renaming the product dimensions which needs you to also change the label of following fields:
- AltConfigId (InventTable)
- AltInventSizeId (InventTable)
- AltInventStyleId (InventTable)
- AltInventColorId (InventTable)
All of these fields have an overwritten label property on the field level.
So i tried to change the label of these fields with an extension.
Unfortunately that didn’t work as expected, the form still showed the old labels.
After some digging i found that the property „Group prompt“ was responsible for this behavior as it forces the field of the table and all its related form controls to show the label on a UI level if the fields are used within a group which is set on this property. Currently you can’t change or delete this property although it seems like you can with an extension.
The solution was to change/overwrite the label on the form control itself which is not a satisfying way of doing things but it worked out.
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