Today I’d like to talk briefly about whether or not we have access to the standard internal table/field (Access Property = internal) via AL.
Access modifiers are used to set accessibility of tables, table fields, codeunits, and queries, etc which controls whether the object can be used from other code in your module or other modules.
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) will introduce the possibility to add any existing table field to a page via page customization (by users for their pages or by admins for a specific profile). This feature will be launched in the October release and listed as a “preview”.
Yesterday I saw an interesting question on the D365 forum, how to use field name to find field id. More details: finding the id of a field using the field name only by using the recref and fieldref
So, in this post, I would like to talk about how to get the id, type, length and value of a field by its text name (field name).
Have you ever wondered why there are two different media field types in AL, but only one UI? I have, and in this video, I’m looking into it:
Join me as I brainstorm/prototype an idea for a variable-length record system in Business Central and AL. Instead of needing to create hundreds of staging tables, what if a single table could contain everything? Check out the video:
This post is especially interesting for the people whose native language is not English. Do you know the feeling? You are looking at the source code of some .al object and you come across a field name that means absolutely nothing to you. It would be helpful for you if you could see the translation of this field name into your native language.
In this video, I show how you can create a custom mask for a field, either for protecting information or for formatting. Check it out: