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Add 5 AL/BC patterns: document distribution (Report Selections, Document Sending Profile, Find Entries, TransferFields)

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Five rules about Business Central's document distribution architecture,
verified against BCApps source and Microsoft Learn.

- custom-document-dispatch-must-not-bypass-report-selections
- document-print-and-email-actions-call-report-selections-directly
- extend-find-entries-navigate-for-new-document-types
- extend-report-selection-usage-for-new-document-types
- transferfields-mirrored-fields-must-match-type-and-length

Wired into al-data-modeling-review.md's worklist cues. Added a
disambiguation note on the TransferFields article distinguishing it from
the existing transferfields-skip-type-mismatch-can-drop-data.md
(type-mismatch skipping vs. length mismatch, which SkipFieldsNotMatchingType
does not affect).

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@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ The following targeted checks cover every current `data-modeling` article. Treat
- A master table adds or changes `Last Date Modified`, `OnModify`, or `OnRename`, but the non-editable field is not assigned `Today()` in both triggers — `set-last-date-modified-in-onmodify-and-onrename`.
- A `tableextension` appends a conditional `TableRelation` as if it overrides an earlier unconditional relation, or relation branches are otherwise designed without accounting for additive top-down evaluation — `table-relation-extensions-are-additive-and-top-down`.
- A `Media` or `MediaSet` field is assigned directly between different table types or different field IDs instead of registering each shared item with `MediaSet.Insert` — `share-mediaset-items-with-insert-not-field-assignment`.
- A codeunit dispatches a document by calling `Report.Run`/`Report.RunModal` with a hardcoded report ID and building its own email directly, with no accompanying `Report Selections` registration for that document — `custom-document-dispatch-must-not-bypass-report-selections`. A call that already goes through `Report Selections`' own Print/Email procedures is not this anti-pattern.
- A document's own interactive Print/Email action routes through `Document Sending Profile` (`DocumentSendingProfile.Send`/`SendVendor`) instead of calling `Report Selections` (`PrintForCust`/`PrintWithDialogForCust`/`SendEmailToCust`/`PrintWithDialogForVend`/`SendEmailToVendor`) directly — `document-print-and-email-actions-call-report-selections-directly`. Do not flag `Document Sending Profile` usage that is genuinely part of a combined Post-and-Send action.
- An `EventSubscriber` is added for `Navigate::OnAfterFindRecords` (registering a custom table in Find Entries) without a matching `Navigate::OnBeforeShowRecords` subscriber for the same table, or vice versa — `extend-find-entries-navigate-for-new-document-types`. Both subscribers must be added together for the same table.
- An `enumextension` extends `"Report Selection Usage"` and registers a report via `ReportSelections.InsertRecord`, but no subscriber is added for `OnAfterFilterCustomerUsageReportSelections`/`OnAfterFilterVendorUsageReportSelections` on `page 9657`/`page 9658` — `extend-report-selection-usage-for-new-document-types`. Registration and the filter-event subscription are one inseparable unit of work.
- The same field number is added as a new field on two or more tables connected by a `TransferFields` call in a posting cascade (e.g. a header table and the posted-document table `SalesPost.Codeunit.al`/`PurchPost.Codeunit.al` transfer into), with a different data type or length on one side — `transferfields-mirrored-fields-must-match-type-and-length`. A field defined on only one side of the cascade is out of scope; this cues only on a field deliberately mirrored across the cascade with a type or length mismatch.
Once the candidate worklist is known, resolve layer-precedence conflicts per READ. Drop lower-precedence files whose normative guidance (`## Best Practice` or `## Anti Pattern`) directly contradicts a higher-precedence candidate, and record each dropped file in `suppressed` with `reason: "layer-precedence"`. Files that would have been candidates but are hidden because their layer is disabled in consumer configuration are recorded with `reason: "configuration"`. Files that never became candidates are NOT recorded in `suppressed`.