Business Central 2024 wave 1 (BC24): Tooltips on table fields (ToolTip Property & ToolTipML Property)

Dynamics 365 Business Central

The article titled "Hi, Readers" discusses the public preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release wave 1 (BC24), which is now available.
The author mentions that they will continue to test and share new features that they believe will be helpful.
The article specifically focuses on the tooltip property on table fields, which is not yet documented in the BC24 release plan but is mentioned in the AL Language extension changelog Version 13.0.
The tooltip property allows for a short description to be displayed when hovering over a field.
The tooltip property can be applied to various page controls, including page labels, page fields, page parts, page system parts, page chart parts, page action areas, page actions, page action groups, page custom actions, and page system actions.
With the BC24 release, the tooltip property can now be applied to table fields as well.
The article also mentions that the tooltip property cannot be used in the context of table extensions in BC23.5 and previous versions.
The author encourages readers to try out the new features and thanks them for reading.

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