Field statecode not generated

[akiraquenot]

I am currently migrating my TS files to use XDT.
For some reason, the generation process does not manage fields which are placed in the footer of the form ('statecode' field in my case).

So the following line of code fails on build because "Object 'this.formContext.getAttribute("statecode")' is possibly 'undefined' (TS2532)":
this.formContext.getAttribute("statecode").setValue(customentity_statecode.Inactive);

Is that a bug or is there any way to make it work?

Thank you in advance!

Environment

• CRM/D365/CDS version: 9.1.0000.25849
• Tool version: 5.4.1

[magesoe]

According to some random blogs you have to get it by going through the control, but that seems weird to me. Anyway getControl("footer_statecode").getAttribute() should work

[akiraquenot]

Thanks @magesoe for your answer, I tried this way too but same result, the control is not recognized and it displays the same error message...

In fact I have nothing concerning 'statecode' field in my generated form.d.ts

[DeanHolmes]

Fields in the footer are read only so do not get included. Add the field as a hidden field to the main form.

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[akiraquenot]

@DeanHolmes Thank you for the information.

It is sad that XDT cannot manage that... For now, I manually created the method getAttribute("statecode") in the generated file to make the rule work.