Tip #36 | Using Mark and MarkedOnly in the Role Tailored Client

I always wanted to blog about myself, but humble as I am I never got around to do that. 😉

But now I have an excuse.

When the Role Tailored Client was introduced in 2009 one of the things that is missing from the UI was the ability to Mark some records and filter on Marked Only records. This is usefull when you want a subset of your data with records that have no common value to filter on.

In the Classic Client, now Development Environment, you can find the functions here:

However, this feature was discontinued from the IU, but not from C/AL.

In the C/AL Symbol Menu it is still possible to Mark records and filter them.

So let’s see what happens if we use that in a Page step-by-step. We’ll use the Customer List (Page 22)

Step 1 – Add a new Action Category (Optional)

To make it easy for end users to find the options we’ll start by adding a category for the actions we are going to add later.

Note that in order to add a new Category you need to also add the default ones. In this case we will work with Category4.

Step 2 – Add Actions with the correct properties

We add three actions in the ActionItems category

And we assign a Name, Caption, Image and PromotedCategory. I also choose to make them big and promoted.

Step 3 – Add C/AL Code

We add the C/AL commands to the actions

Note that we use the reverse value to toggle the values on and off

Step 4 – Add a column indicator

To make is easy for users to see if a record is marked or not we add a new column to the page with Mark as the source expression

The Result

When we run the page you see that we can Mark records which will be indicated in the new column, filter on them and easily clear the Marks.

TIP: Copy/Paste

Since we did not use any variables or functions we can just copy/paste the actions around to any other page, as long as the ActionCategoryML does not conflict with existing values.

Enjoy