Creating an automatic lookup

EDT (Extended Data Type) and table relation type lookups are the simplest lookups in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations and can be created in seconds without any programming knowledge. They are based on table relations and appear automatically. No additional modifications are required.

This recipe will show you how to create a very basic automatic lookup using table relations. To demonstrate this, we will add a new Method of payment column to the existing Customer group form.

How to do it...

To create an automatic lookup, we can follow the following steps:

1. Create a new solution named CreatingAutomaticLookup and assign an appropriate package to it.
2. Find a CustGroup table in AOT under application...