Form load event usage

In this recipe, we will focus on executing a few operations triggered by the form load event. We can check the value of a specific field on the form, and based on that we can decide to hide a tab, hide a field, and prepopulate a text field with a predefined value.

Getting ready...

Just as with any of the previous recipes, you will need access to an environment, and permissions to make customizations. You should be a system administrator, a system customizer, or a custom role configured to allow you to perform the following operations.

How to do it...

For the purpose of this exercise, we will add to the Contact entity a new tab called "Special Customer", with some additional custom fields. We will also add an option set that we ...

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