Question

You are building a PCF field component that displays a color-coded status badge. The color depends on values stored in a related configuration table in Dataverse. The component must retrieve these configuration values once and reuse them, because updateView is called frequently as the user interacts with the form. Where should you place the Web API retrieveMultipleRecords call, and how should you handle the result?

Accepted Answer

Call context.webAPI.retrieveMultipleRecords in the init method, store the results in a private field, and read from that field during each updateView call.

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Call context.webAPI.retrieveMultipleRecords inside updateView every time it fires so the configuration is always current.

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Call context.webAPI.retrieveMultipleRecords in the getOutputs method and return the values as an output property.

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Call context.webAPI.retrieveMultipleRecords in the destroy method to ensure the data is available for cleanup.