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-Theme - Usability
-Sub-theme - Context-aware intelligence
-Problem solved - Avoid unexpected results from action
Business Central has the powerful ability to select more than one record on a list and have an action on the page handle them in batch.
Unfortunately there is no way to know when selecting the action whether it operates on only a single record (most of the actions), or supports multi-record selection.
Using a declarative property or compile-time code-analysis (look for setselectionfilter in code executed as a result of action) it would solve some usability issues if an action indicated visually if it is enabled for multi-selection.
An option also exists to disable any actions that don't support multiple rows being selected. This would avoid confusion and mistaken errors.
-Sub-theme - Context-aware intelligence
-Problem solved - Avoid unexpected results from action
Business Central has the powerful ability to select more than one record on a list and have an action on the page handle them in batch.
Unfortunately there is no way to know when selecting the action whether it operates on only a single record (most of the actions), or supports multi-record selection.
Using a declarative property or compile-time code-analysis (look for setselectionfilter in code executed as a result of action) it would solve some usability issues if an action indicated visually if it is enabled for multi-selection.
An option also exists to disable any actions that don't support multiple rows being selected. This would avoid confusion and mistaken errors.
STATUS DETAILS
Needs Votes
Business Central Team (administrator)
Thank you for this suggestion! Currently this is not on our roadmap. We are tracking this idea and if it gathers more votes and comments we will consider it in the future. Best regards, Business Central Team