from https://github.com/microsoft/AL/issues/6163

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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, opaque, error-prone, and incompatible with what I hear is the plan by MS to get rid of object IDs entirely (eventually!).

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To Reproduce

Try to make a page that shows Custom Report Selections for Customers only.

You have to enter it like so:

SourceTable = "Custom Report Selection";
SourceTableView = where("Source Type" = const(18));

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Expected behavior

Ideally, we should be able to specify the table ID via its name in the Database:: namespace or similar, like we can in actual AL code:

SourceTable = "Custom Report Selection";
SourceTableView = where("Source Type" = const(Database::Customer));

Please consider making this possible in all such where() expressions, and for all object types. Thanks!