Here’s a super useful feature now available in Dynamics 365 for Model-driven Apps called as Advanced Lookups.
Turn on Advanced Lookup from Behavior Settings
You’ll need to go to the Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC) –
- Navigate to Behavior
Using Advanced Lookups
Here’s how the experience will be for you while using Advanced Lookups
- Now, once this is enabled, in Dynamics 365 – for example – a Parent Account lookup on Account will work as below –
- And it will open this dialog where you’ll see a much wider view of the Advanced Lookup and help your find the record using navigation/filtering options
Denoted by Red arrow, you can even switch between different available System Views for the selected Table (entity).
Denoted by Green, you can either create a record on the fly or filter to show only records that you own. - Once you select to switch a view, you’ll be able to select between different System Views.
- And once you select a record (Of course you can only select 1 record at a time) and click done, it’ll be done.
And it’ll be added to the lookup field as follows. - Also, only the views which you’ve selected in your Model-Driven App will appear and not all. For Example, in the Sales Professional App, I’ve selected only a handful of views and not all. So, only those will show up.
- Also, please make sure when you select Views and not all, please make sure you do select the Lookup View
- Else, if you don’t select this view, it’ll result in Runtime errors which I observed while trying to experiment on what views I can select. Hence, make sure that you select the Lookup Views along with other views which you require.
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Thank you!