AddCustomView

Description

Provides the ability to add a custom view to a lookup control.

Signature

AddCustomView(
  'controlname', 
  'entitylogicalname', 
  'nameofview', 
  'fetchxml', 
  'layoutxml',
  'isdefault',
  'viewid'
)

Example 1

AddCustomView(
  'preferredsystemuserid', 
  'systemuser', 
  'Only users in Canada BU',
  GetFetchXML('CanadaUsers'), 
  GetLayoutXML('CanadaUsers'), 
  false
)

Example 2

AddCustomView(
  'primarycontactid',
  'contact',
  'Only contacts with names starting with A', 
  GetFetchXML('A-Contacts'),
  GetLayoutXML('A-Contacts'), 
  true, 
  '{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}'
)

Example 3

MultipleClientside(

  AddCustomView(
    'parentaccountid', 
    'account', 
    'Only accounts with names starting with A', 
    GetFetchXML('A-Accounts'), 
    GetLayoutXML('A-Accounts'), 
    true,
    '{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}'
  )

  AddCustomView(
    'primarycontactid',
    'contact',
    'Only contacts with names starting with A',
    GetFetchXML('A-Contacts'),
    GetLayoutXML('A-Contacts'),
    true, 
    '{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002}'
  )
)

Notes

In Dynamics 365 v9 there is a bug that Microsoft does not respect the isdefault flag. So in this case you need to set a viewid guid at the end of the function call.

Microsoft APIs

This North52 function relates to the following Microsoft APIs:

• AddCustomView