Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to prevent users from clicking on a Flowfield field (Disable Flowfield Drill-downs)

Dynamics 365 Business Central

The article discusses how to prevent users from clicking on a FlowField field in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
FlowFields in Business Central display calculated results based on the CalcFormula Property.
Drill-downs are a system-wide feature of FlowFields that allow users to see the underlying transactions that make up the information shown.
The article suggests two methods to disable the drill-down behavior.
The first method involves managing permissions and removing page permissions for the specific FlowField field.
The second method involves customizing the OnDrillDown (Page Field) Trigger of the FlowField field.
The author provides an example of using the Error(Text [, Any,...]) Method to prevent users from drilling down.
Additional resources and references are provided at the end of the article for further exploration.

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