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It would be fantastic if I could see the caption of the promoted category instead of the current ones (Category4, Category5 ...). As by now, if I would like to add an action to the sales order and in the navigate promoted group, I have to open the source page, and count how many categories were ...

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Administrator

Thank you for your feedback. Given that 2022 release wave 2 introduces new support for working with promoted actions, which include action groups with names (and include code actions to convert from old to new format), then we are not going to invest more in the "old" ways of promoting actions, including the promoted categories (side-by-side support still retained).

See release notes for more: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2022wave2/smb/dynamics365-business-central/promoted-action-groups-action-references

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Business Central Team

If we were able to run tests from Visual Studio Code (and from some command line application - like we can build using alc.exe) it would make a massive improvement to the efficiency of development (and probably the uptake in writing and running tests). This presupposes that you have the releva...

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Thank you for your feedback. We are considering adding it to our longer term roadmap.

Your help is greatly appreciated,

Business Central Team

Hello, I have an idea how to accelerate RDLC report layout designing. Consider that report creating is composed of two parts: a) Define Dataset in *.al b) Define Report Layout in *.rdlc Printing report processing means: a) Evaluate Dataset (Dataset.xml) b) Evaluate Parameters (Paramset.xml) c)...

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Thank you for this suggestion! Currently this is not on our roadmap. We are tracking this idea and if it gathers more votes and comments we will consider it in the future. Best regards, Business Central Team

Using a workspace, the settings for enabling code cops in folder A (app) and disabling them in folder B (test) are not considered - which is a bug. However, my GitHub request to fix that was not accepted. Read about the details here: https://github.com/microsoft/AL/issues/5489 Please vote to mak...

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Thank you for your feedback. We are considering adding it to our longer term roadmap.

Best regards,
Business Central Team

It would be very useful to be able to define if a specific column can be sorted or not. In case a list contains flowfields (e.g. Amount on Customer Ledger Entries), the user can choose to sort the list producing heavy workloads on the SQL server. An AllowSort property can solve the issue mainta...

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Thank you for your feedback. We are considering adding it to our longer term roadmap.

Your help is greatly appreciated,

Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan 

PM, Microsoft 

from https://github.com/microsoft/AL/issues/6163 -- Describe the bug When setting up SourceTableViews, TableRelations, and so on - that relate to other tables by table IDs (or, far less frequently, specify codeunit IDs to run, etc.) - we still have to use the raw integer ID, which is ugly, opa...

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Thank you for this suggestion! We are shipping this in 2022 release wave 2. You can already now try it out in insider VSIX builds.

Instead of e.g., 

SourceTableView = where("Source Type" = const(18));

it will be possible to use the option name, i.e.,<br>

SourceTableView = where("Source Type" = const(Database::Customer));

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Business Central Team

Windows client provided support to build 'dynamic' pages using collapsing tree views. Collapsing / expanding tree nodes was userfriendly, since it limits the information shown when loading the page and allows to user to decide on what node / level information was needed. However, since the mov...

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Good news! We released this feature as part of 2020 Release Wave 1.

Please refer to the following link for more information:

https://docs.microsoft.com/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave1/dynamics365-business-central/navigate-trees-more-easily

Best regards,

Mike Borg Cardona

Program Manager, Microsoft

When developing in a big workspace and/or in a big single-folder solution it is not always helpful to have the code analyzed as You go. - Code Analysis will often be slow to react - Code Analysis will be surfacing errors and warnings not related to what You are actually doing at the moment So t...

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Thank you for your feedback. We have been investing a lot in the code analyzer framework this upcoming 2023 release wave 1. You can already try it out in the Preview release.

We have optimized when rules are run, fixed some inefficiencies, and disabled rules no longer run…

We have also introduced a new “File” scope for code analysis during authoring , so that code analysis now runs on the active file only by default. This provides much better .performance during coding with, and most rules rely on local analysis anyway. You can still enable rules to run on project level, as they also all run on full build

The benefits are that workspace size does not prevent the use analyzers​ and thus analyzers can be enabled in larger apps and used for everyday work, and you do not need to wait on the CICD pipeline build for CodeCop errors.​

In addition, we've added a new code analyzer performance statistics output, you can enable it via the `outputAnalyzerStatistics` setting. This provides a summary of time spent per rule. Use it to discover which rules are actually running, as well as low-performing rules, in order to enable/diable rules during authoring.

On a related note, you can now also use urls in al.ruleSetPath as well as in includedRuleSets path in the the ruleset file. This makes it easier to share, maintain and enforce common rules

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Business Central Team

We have a requirement to trigger some code any time ANY page is opened (related to some enhanced security functionality). Right now we have to subscribe to EVERY page's openpage event to run our code. It would be great if there was a global trigger that fired any time any page is opened. We co...

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Thank you for this suggestion! We are tracking this idea and if it gathers more votes and comments we might consider it in the future.

However, a generic event is currently not on the roadmap due to performance impact of such a generic event, i.e., having to call subscriber code on every page open, regardless of whether subscriber is applicable to page or not (this will slow down page rendering, an area which is very sensitive to performance degradation and is causing customer concern). 

In addition, the problem with a global OnOpenPage is how to give access to the page being opened (related to https://github.com/Microsoft/AL/issues/1593)? There is currently not a generic page concept, so just adding the event will probably not solve anything. 

It would be great of you could provide some examples in comments on what you would like to use the event for (i.e., what business logic to run on all pages), as the solution to those scenarios that might be something different than a global event.

Best regards,
Business Central Team

When we are using "Go to definition" it works fine as long as I am moving in my own objects. When I use "go to definition" on a "Base App" or "System App" object, a .dal-file is opened, which is fine in the first place, but in many cases I want to navigate through other objects of the Base/System...

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Thank you for your valuable feedback. We have decided to deliver this idea and make it available with Business Central 2020 Wave 2, as well as Business Central 2020 Wave 1 CU2

Up until now Go-to-Definition (F12) has relied on retrieving sources from server, and to support multiple configurations, we added  a defaultLaunchConfigurationName setting to indicate which connection to use. This caused unwanted side-effects, so we have restructured F12 to rely on local dependency applications for resolving the source of a reference symbol for apps with runtime versions >= 5.2 (2020 Wave 1 CU2).

This implies that DAL file symbol source navigation support multiple steps/depth as long as symbols are present. There is no support for going a step back again though, i.e., Alt+Arrow Left will go back to starting point. Also, note that F12 will use local symbols which might not reflect server versions - this is relevant when using F12 to navigate into, e.g., a referenced extension to set breakpoints.

For versions <= 5.2 Go to Definition will work as before defaultLaunchConfigurationName, i.e., no source file for reference symbols on a Go to Definition if more then one debug configuration is defined.

Your help was greatly appreciated,  

Peter Borring

PM, Microsoft