CTRL + ALT + F1 – Inspect Pages
You are working in Business Central and you need to find a value in a field that is not visible on the page. Someone has come to you and asked for a customer’s Tax Exemption No.. You know it is on the customer card somewhere, you’re in hurry and can’t remember where that darn field is located. Boy you look and feel silly. Like you don’t know what you are doing! But wait – you remember the power of CTRL + ALT + F1 – Page Inspection. In NAV it was called About this page, in BC you just call it magic!
With CTRL + ALT + F1, Page Inspection opens to the right of the browser window. Use the search field and type in “tax.” Viola! All fields with “tax” in their caption along with the data values are listed. Now you can provide that Tax Exemption No. requested without searching through the customer card.
If you have fields from extensions, you can see them here. And, if you can click on the Extensions tab, all the apps including base and extensions affecting this table are listed. In our example everything is from the base application.
If you want to see all records in the table, not just one at a time, select View Table. A page will open listing all the records and all the fields. (Open the page in a new window to make it easier to see more of the fields on a page. The first time you do this you may need to change your view from tiles to list.)
You can click on many of the fields on this page to get to the underlying data however, you will not be able to modify or delete any of the records or data from this page. There are also no actions available from this page. It is for viewing only.
If you have been looking for the ability to find the time a customer record was last modified (only the Last Modified Date can be found on the customer page), you are in luck. There is a field in the table with this information. The next time you need it use CTRL + ALT + F1, search table fields using “time” to find it. You may find other fields of similar value if you peruse through the data in this way.
Sometimes Business Central applies filters to a list page that the user cannot see or modify. And you don’t understand why you are seeing something you expect. One example of these is table view filters. You will not see these filters even if you expand the Filter Pane on thepage. If you think your list may be filtered in this way, you can confirm it using Page Inspection. You can see all filters including UserFilters and TableViewFilters by selecting the Page Filters tab.
If you are the Business Central administrator, you probably don’t want everyone to have full access on this page. Not to worry, access is controlled through permissions. To give detail access to users, assign execute permissions to System Object 5330 or permission set or user group D365 Troubleshoot. Without permission to System Object 5330 a user can still access Page Inspection however only Page and Table fields with basic details can be seen.
The next time you need to find data on a page, try out Page Inspection. Just remember CTRL + ALT + F1.
