Displaying a list of custom options

Besides normal lookups, Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations provides a number of other ways to present the available data for user selection. It does not necessarily have to be a record from the database; it can be a list of hardcoded options or some external data. Normally, such lists are much smaller as opposed to those of the data-driven lookups, and are used for very specific tasks.

In this recipe, we will create a lookup of several predefined options. We will use a job for this demonstration.

How to do it...

1. Add a new project and add a new RunnableClass named PickList:

        class PickList 
       {           
          /// <summary> 
          /// Runs the class with the specified arguments. 
          /// </summary> 
          /// <param name = "_args">The specified arguments.</param> 
          public static void main(Args _args) 
         {         
            Map choices; 
            str ret; 
         
          ...