Salvador Gimeno Zanón iDynamics Technical Lead

Sometimes, when a user wants to delete a record, we might want to show some extra information about the consequences of doing so (e.g. "This will delete all related XXX", or "The customer already has XX active, and deleting this record will stop them".

When we do so, this results in two confirmation dialogs for the user: the default BC dialog ("Delete XXX?") + our confirmation dialog.

We believe that the UX would be much improved if there was some kind of event in BC to which we could subscribe when deleting records, that let us return an extra text to be shown in the default dialog. So that instead of just

"Delete XXX?"

The user would be shown:

"Delete XXX?

This will..... (additional text)"

Something like "OnBeforDeleteConfirmation(var Rec: Record XXX; var AdditionalText: Text)".

Ok, I think we've all been there: you have an enum that's shown to the user, and you need to add a new option. But, because of how enums work, if you use sequential IDs, and add a new option, it will always appear at the end, regardless of the logical relation between the different options.

What I'm proposing is to have a new SortBy property in enums, that specifies how Enums should be shown to the user (in dropdowns, when selecting a value). This property would have three possible values: Index (default), SortIndex, Caption.

This way, if nothing is specified, everything will work as usual. But, if we specify

enum 50000 "My Example Enum"
{
  SortBy = Caption;
  value(0; OptionB)
  {
    Caption = 'B';
  }
  value(1; OptionA)
  {
    Caption = 'A';
  }
}

This would mean that the user would see a dropdown with the options "A" and "B" (actually depending on the user language and translated captions).

Similarly, if we specify SortBy = SortIndex

enum 50000 "My Example Enum"
{
  SortBy = SortIndex;
  value(0; OptionB)
  {
    Caption = 'B';
    SortIndex = 1;  // Required property if SortBy = SortIndex.
  }
  value(1; OptionA)
  {
    Caption = 'A';
    SortIndex = 0;
  }
}

The user would see "A" and "B" as options (in that order), regardless of their captions.