Option sets

Option sets, formerly known as pick lists, are fields that have a defined set of options available to them. Similar to Managed Metadata terms in SharePoint, they are designed to promote data consistency across the platform. Just like all the other aspects of CDS, Microsoft provides a number of system-generated Option sets that you can use in your own apps or which you can follow as examples. One such example is Fiscal Period, which has a set of options available, such as Quarter 1, Quarter 2, and so on:

Now that we have looked at the data menu, we can look at the next key area, which is related to our data connections.