Application Studio Company Configuration Text Boxes will not show UD fields

It’s the darndest thing

I couldn’t figure out why the text boxes were not appearing until I bound them to non UD fields and then they work. They also work unbound.

It gets weirder, sometimes after previewing the page it will shrink the height of the text box to nothing

Bind text box to UD field. Note this field came up as I began to type it in. Epicor supplied the field name. I did not manually type it in. (It is the correct field name)

Preview. Nothing there.

Bind same textbox to non UD field.

It mysteriously starts working.

Set the field back to the original UD fields. Add a second unbound text box to add another field to later. Save and exit application studio

Come back later to work on it and its been flattened

The fields are populated with data. The classic version of this form has been using them for years. No field security on the fields.

The irony is that this very simple customization is to show that we can migrate to Kinetic and it doesn’t even display fields.

I have displayed many UD fields on other forms but this one seems special.
Then again with all the weirdness I have run into with this seemingly unfinished product should I be surprised?

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Its probably marked hidden by default. Its a bug. Its not the UD field its the hidden by default setting.

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Thank you. That is it.

Now I have to figure out if its going to be worth all the work arounds just to display these 2 fields.

Not the first bug I hit. Ironic that it works in Classic just fine and that our easiest customization is turning out to be a hassle.

Going to have a fun conversation with my boss on how the people with the highest clearance cannot access a simple field lol.

It reminds me of the hoops that I am running through for other UD fields.
JobHead recognizes the UD fields but not in a function unless I use LINQ.
The Package Control Header customizations do not recognize non hidden UD fields (classic or kinetic). Never mind getting into customizations that involve any form of complexity.

For something that is supposed to be happening next year it seems like a very very unfinished product.

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