We have lots of pages that are overloaded with controls, forcing the user to scroll to see information. Lots of the controls are actually a reference to a master table (code field) and the description / name of the selected record (text flowfield). It would be nice to have an application-wide feature allowing to use one control to input the value (based on the code field, using the current dropdown / search features), but to show the text flowfield as a result.

The same way the 'Sell-to Customer Name' field on the sales documents acts, but without having to custom-code the whole thing. (although this actually uses a 'real' customer name field, whereas we don't want to add the option to overwrite the customer name.) This would save quite some space on pages.

PS: In addition, it could be interesting showing only the flowfield in list pages as well, but when the user filters on the flowfield, to use the source field (code field) instead to execute the query.

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