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AL Toolbox for Visual Studio Code

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Features

• Regions Pre AL Language 6.0 • Custom Region Colors • Snippets • Actions • Added Code Cop Warning

Quick Overview Features

• Custom Color of Regions • Quickfixes: Surround with CopyStr • Quickfixes: Pragma Warnings • Action: Create Region • Action: Renumber AL Objects • Action: Change Object Prefix • Action: Create Related Tables • Action: Open Related Tables • Action: Copy Fields Related Tables • Action: Init Git Ignore • Action: Generate SetLoadFields • Region Functionality for PRE AL Language 6.0 • Settings • Known Issues

Custom Color of Regions

You can change the color in UserSettings

Quickfixes: Surround with CopyStr

Automatic fix for AL(AA0139)

Pragma Warnings

Every warning/information line will now show a CodeAction to surround with Pragma to ignore it. So that warnings that you can do nothing about can be ignored easily. • Example: • Click the Lightbulb: • Result:

Some variants on the above Pragma CodeAction were added as well: • Surround ### with Pragma & add TODO tag (with comment) • Surround ### with Pragma (in all documents)

Action: Create Region

• ALTB: Create regions for all AL functions and triggers | Running this command will generate Regions around all Functions that don't have regions yet. • ALTB: Create regions for all AL dataitems and columns | Running this command will generate Regions around all Dataitems and Columns in a report. • ALTB: Create regions for all AL functions, triggers, dataitems, and columns | Combination of the previous 2.

Action: Renumber AL Objects

• ALTB: Renumber AL Objects | This function will renumber your objects based on the number ranges in the App.json • Objects will be numbered in ascending order stating with the lowest number in first available range. The ranges are taken from idRange(s) in the app.json file. • Extension objects will be added to the 80,000-89,999 range if 80,000 is in the available ranges. If not the same is done as for the other objects. • ALTB: Renumber fields | Renumbers field numbers in the active editor • ALTB: Renumber all fields | Renumbers fields in all tables and table extensions objects (in all workspace folders).

Action: Change Object Prefix

• ALTB: Change Object Prefix | This function will ask you what the new prefix should be and rename all your objects and the settings.json.

Action: Create Related Tables

This will create a set of tableextensions that should have the same fields so that there is no issue when standard code issues a TransferFields().

Action: Open Related Tables

• ALTB: Open Related Tables/Pages | This function will open the related tables/pages for the object you are working on, so you can easily copy paste fields between the related tables of Sales Header for example.

Action: Copy Fields Related Tables

• ALTB: Copy fields to related tables | This will copy al fields from the current table to all related tables. If there are conflicts you will get a popup that allows you to navigate to them:

Action: Init Git Ignore

• ALTB: init .gitignore | Creates the following .gitignore in the current workspace folder or appends the missing lines to the existing .gitignore

Action: Generate SetLoadFields

ALTB: Generate SetLoadFields | Creates SetLoadFields or adds missing fields to SetLoadFields for a record. • Looks for a record at the current mouse position. • Only works for local records. • For each Get, Find, FindFirst, ... a SetLoadFields function is generated the line before it, unless it already exists. • All used fields are added. Assignment is not seen as usage.

Region Functionality for PRE AL Language 6.0

Either //#Region or the default #Region can be used with this extension. The snippets/actions will adjust automatically according to the runtime you are using. #Region will now be colored like //#Region; you can change the colors in the User Setup

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