Configure Customer lookup to show either contacts or accounts in Canvas Apps

Happy new year to all my blog readers and this is my first blog of 2020. And how about starting with a simple one and that too on canvas apps!

So this was my customer requirement. They were designing a canvas app for their business users which was basically kind of contact management. And while designing the contact edit form, they needed to show a form similar to the below one.

important fields to consider in the above screenshot are “Parent entity” & “Is company contact”.

Parent Entity field is nothing but the Company name (parentcustomerid) field of the contact. “Is Company Contact” is a custom field of type boolean.

In short the requirement was if that if the contact is a company contact, then the Parent entity field should allow users only to select Accounts else it should allow users to select only contacts. We…