Add 15 community knowledge articles from BC Code Intel ingest (#66)
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* Add 15 community knowledge articles from BC Code Intel ingest

Ingests net-new /community knowledge from BC Code Intelligence, surviving
the admission test, gray-zone salvage, and dedup against the full corpus.

Domains: ui (6), error-handling (3), performance (2), upgrade (1),
appsource (1), security (1), telemetry (1). The two BC24 No. Series
migration drafts are merged into one article.

Adds good/bad AL samples for the clean-fit articles (error-handling,
performance, security, telemetry). UI and appsource remain knowledge-only.

Validator and knowledge-index checks pass (207 articles).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Correct SetLoadFields JIT-load article to match MS docs

The draft claimed accessing an unlisted field "reloads the entire row"
per record. Microsoft's partial-records docs say otherwise: the platform
does an implicit Get that loads the missing field(s), and in a direct var
loop the first JIT updates the enumerator so later iterations do not
re-load. The genuine per-row penalty is the pass-by-value case, where the
copy's enumerator is not updated.

Rewrite the article around JIT loading and the by-value footgun, rename
the slug from ...full-reload to ...jit-load, and fix the good/bad samples
to demonstrate the by-value repetition accurately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Jeremy Vyska <jeremy@sparebrained.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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bc-version: [all]
domain: error-handling
keywords: [fielderror, testfield, field-validation, onvalidate, error-message, mandatory-field, record-context]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
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# Choose `TestField` For Conditional Checks And `FieldError` For Already-Failed Validation
> Contributions welcome — open a PR to refine or extend this article.
## Description
`TestField` and `FieldError` look interchangeable but behave differently, and choosing the wrong one produces either dead code or a check that never fires. `TestField` performs the comparison itself and throws only when the field is empty or does not match the supplied value; `FieldError` performs no comparison and always raises an error the moment it is reached. Both attach the field caption and the record's primary-key context to the message automatically, which is why neither should be replaced by a hand-built `Error` call that interpolates the field name as a literal.
## Best Practice
Use `TestField` when the condition is a simple presence-or-equality check on a single field — mandatory-field gates and prerequisite checks at the top of a procedure read clearly and self-document intent. Use `FieldError` inside an `OnValidate` trigger or a validation procedure where surrounding business logic has already determined the value is invalid and you want a specific, custom message. Rely on the built-in field-and-record context both methods add rather than re-stating the field name in the text.
## Anti Pattern
Calling `FieldError` to "test" a field — placing it on a path that is reached unconditionally and expecting it to validate — terminates execution every time because `FieldError` never evaluates a condition. The inverse smell is reaching for `TestField` when the rule needs a tailored message, then bolting a vague generic string onto a check that cannot express the real business reason. A reviewer can spot the first by a `FieldError` that is not guarded by a preceding `if`, and the second by a `TestField` whose intent comment describes a condition more complex than presence or equality.