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I'm customizing the Work Order Priority field in the Maximo Mobile Technician app and ran into something I'm not fully understanding.

For most smart-input fields that use a lookup, Maximo automatically shows the lookup icon (magnifier). But for the Priority field, the default step buttons (numeric increment/decrement) appear instead, and the lookup icon does not show up.

Here's the scenario:

• I want to disable the default numeric step buttons for Priority.

• I want to enable a lookup so the technician selects a priority from a configured lookup definition.

Even with hide-step-buttons="true" and enable-lookup-buttongroup="true", the priority field still doesn't display the lookup button, unlike similar fields using the same properties.

The MAF framework doesn't currently support lookups on smart-input when the data type is numeric. I opened an idea for this a while back (Support lookups on | IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal) but I don't believe it has been implemented yet. 

To do a lookup, you need to do something like TECHMOBILE does for worktype out of the box where you use a field control to display the selected value and then add a button that opens the lookup and copies the value and another to clear the value.