Get UserPrivilege on a field in Dynamics 365/ CDS Client API

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Here is my tip for today!

If you have a requirement where you need to check the privilege the user has on a particular field and then take decisions accordingly, you can use the formContext.getAttribute(“<fieldname>”).getUserPrivilege(); method.

The method has been introduced for quite sometime now but is somewhat less known.

The method returns a boolean object which has three properties.

• canWrite
• canRead
• canCreate

Hope you benefit from this tip!

Debajit Dutta

(Business Solutions MVP)