Make basic customizations in an app
You can work and manage the data with the default app interface, but organizations usually have interface requirements based on user demands or feedback. In this unit, you'll learn how to customize your canvas apps to make them more usable for your users.
Galleries
The gallery used in our previous example in the last unit displays items in Business Central, but it shows too much information which results in not enough items on the list by default. When you want to show more items on the list, you need to customize the gallery layout. Watch the following demonstration on how to resolve this issue customizing the gallery in canvas app.
Forms
In a canvas app, you can customize a Detail form control and an Edit form control so that they show the data that matters most and in the most intuitive order to help users easily understand and update the data.
Forms comprise one or more cards, each of which shows data from a column in the data source. Next, we'll learn how to specify which cards appear in a form and we'll see how to move cards up and down within a form.
In our example, you might want to remove some fields that users have found are not useful such as ID, itemCategoryId, and baseUnitOfMeasureId and replace them with more useful fields. Therefore, you need to customize the Detail form and the Edit form. Mostly, you would need to customize both forms as they are showing the same set of data. You probably want to keep consistency in your app as you don't want to see one set of fields on details, but another set of fields when you start with editing. Watch the following video to see a demonstration of this process.
Cards
Cards comprise some other controls. In an Edit form control, the user enters data about Unit Price in a standard Number input control. You can perform some basic customizations without unlocking card changing control, but if you want more, you should unlock the card on the Advanced tab and add a control that isn't available for that card by default. Watch the following demonstration to understand what controls are and how to change them with or without unlocking card changing control.