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How to extract Page Control ToolTips in Business Central (Cloud)?

Hi everyone,

I came across this article while exploring how to extract tooltips for page actions:
https://yzhums.com/38386/

The approach mentioned there works well for extracting Action ToolTips.

However, I now need to extract ToolTips for Page Controls (fields, groups, etc.) in a similar way.

Current Situation:

I found a table that contains ToolTip data for page controls.(Page Table Field -> 2000000171)
But that table has Scope = OnPrem, so it cannot be used in Cloud (SaaS) development.
I need a solution that works in Business Central Cloud environment.

Requirement:

I want to extract:

Page Control Caption
Corresponding ToolTip

Ideally, something similar to how Action ToolTips are extracted in the shared article.

Question:

Is there any supported way in Cloud (AL) to extract ToolTips for Page Controls?
Or any alternative approach/workaround to achieve this?

Any guidance or suggestions would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance!

Categories:

Dynamics 365 Business Central

Hello,
in Business Central SaaS, there isn’t a supported AL way to read page-control tooltips from system metadata like Table 2000000171 “Page Table Field”, because Microsoft marks Scope = OnPrem tables as unavailable to cloud extensions, even through direct access or RecordRef; so the approach from Yun Zhu’s blog can work for Action ToolTips, but for field/group/page control ToolTips you can’t use that OnPrem metadata table in Cloud. The supported direction is to manage ToolTips in AL source itself: page fields can have ToolTip, and from BC 2024 wave 1/runtime 13.0, table fields can also have ToolTip, which pages inherit automatically unless overridden on the page. For extracting them in SaaS, the practical workaround is outside runtime AL: parse the .al source files or the generated translation .xlf files from your app/source repository; for Microsoft base app controls, you won’t get a clean supported AL API to dump all page captions + tooltips at runtime. Source used: Microsoft Docs; the article you shared is from Yun Zhu’s blog for the action-tooltip part.

Regards,
Oussama Sabbouh

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