Extract 55 knowledge articles from BC review-agent prompt

Adds 55 articles (plus 76 code samples) spanning four new domains and
two existing domains, extracted from the internal Business Central
review-agent prompt. Content was filtered against BCQuality's
remedial-knowledge premise: each article encodes BC-specific behaviour,
a CodeCop rule, a platform API semantic, or an anti-false-positive
guideline that a capable LLM would otherwise get wrong.

New domains:
- privacy (11 articles): DataClassification inheritance semantics, the
  StrSubstNo-defeats-Error-telemetry-classification pitfall, Privacy
  Notice consent for outgoing requests, anti-false-positives for pages
  and in-memory data.
- upgrade (11 articles): upgrade-codeunit structure, upgrade-tag
  lifecycle and registration, protected DB reads, DataTransfer for
  large datasets, InitValue semantics, enum-ordinal preservation,
  obsolete-workflow, first-install detection.
- ui (9 articles): caption capitalization by phrase type, tooltip voice,
  teaching-tip vs tooltip, tour-tip conventions, character limits,
  banned terms, ampersand handling, title punctuation.
- style (11 articles): label-suffix convention, API page naming,
  temporary-variable prefix, label properties (Comment/Locked), named
  invocations, FieldCaption in user messages, OptionCaption pairing,
  Error-parameter passing, `this` keyword, required parentheses, file
  naming.

Gaps in existing domains:
- performance (11 articles): production-scale table catalog (no row
  counts, per internal-data concern), anti-false-positive for bounded
  tables, guard-before-Get ordering, redundant-Get-in-OnAfterGetRecord,
  LockTable in read-only helpers, combined ModifyAll passes, writes in
  OnAfterGetRecord, SetLoadFields heuristics, temporary-table
  regressions, FlowField source-table widening, MaintainSQLIndex
  disabling SIFT.
- security (2 articles): environment-specific hardcoded GUIDs,
  ValidateTableRelation=false on user input.

Intentionally excluded: specific production P95 row-count numbers
(aggregated internal telemetry); rewritten as categorical guidance on
which tables to treat as production-scale without publishing sizes.

All articles use `bc-version: [all]` (applies to every BC version, per
the new schema sentinel). Validator passes with 0 errors / 0 warnings.
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tableextension 51303 "Sec Sample VTR Bad" extends "Sales Header"
{
fields
{
// Editable user input with validation suppressed and no fallback check.
// The user can type any string; downstream Get against Customer will fail
// or return a wrong row.
field(50102; "Customer No."; Code[20])
{
Caption = 'Customer no.';
DataClassification = CustomerContent;
TableRelation = Customer."No.";
ValidateTableRelation = false;
}
}
}

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tableextension 51302 "Sec Sample VTR Good" extends "Sales Header"
{
fields
{
// User-editable field keeps ValidateTableRelation default (true).
field(50100; "External Customer Ref"; Code[50])
{
Caption = 'External customer reference';
DataClassification = CustomerContent;
TableRelation = Customer."No.";
}
// System-controlled field: validation bypass is acceptable because
// the value is populated by controlled upstream code, not the user.
field(50101; "System Batch Id"; Code[20])
{
Caption = 'System batch ID';
DataClassification = SystemMetadata;
TableRelation = "Job Queue Entry".ID;
ValidateTableRelation = false;
Editable = false;
}
}
}

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---
bc-version: [all]
domain: security
keywords: [validatetablerelation, user-input, lookup, integrity, validation]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
---
# Do not set ValidateTableRelation = false on fields that accept user input
## Description
`TableRelation` on a field tells the platform that the value must exist as a primary key in the related table. `ValidateTableRelation = false` suppresses that check at validation time. On system-populated fields — values the code sets from a controlled source and never displays as editable — the suppression is acceptable because the integrity guarantee comes from the upstream writer. On a field the user types into (a page field, an import column, an API payload), disabling the validation means any value at all can be written: a non-existent customer number, a typo, a deliberate bad value. The table no longer enforces the relation, and downstream code that Gets the related row with an unguarded lookup breaks.
## Best Practice
Leave `ValidateTableRelation = true` (the default) on any field the user can set. When the default would produce unhelpful behaviour — a transient lookup that does not yet exist at validation time, a reference that uses a non-primary-key column — handle it with a targeted OnValidate trigger that performs the semantic check explicitly. Use `ValidateTableRelation = false` only when the field is genuinely system-controlled and the writer has already validated the reference.
See sample: `do-not-disable-validatetablerelation-on-user-input.good.al`.
## Anti Pattern
A `Customer No.` field on an editable page with `TableRelation = Customer."No."` and `ValidateTableRelation = false` and no OnValidate fallback. The user can type any string; the platform accepts it; a later Get against Customer fails or returns the wrong row.
See sample: `do-not-disable-validatetablerelation-on-user-input.bad.al`.

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codeunit 51301 "Sec Sample EnvGuid Bad"
{
procedure GetTenantId(): Text
begin
// Tenant GUID hardcoded. Extension works in one environment, fails in every other.
exit('{12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012}');
end;
procedure GetAadApplicationId(): Text
begin
// AAD application GUID hardcoded. Same problem, surfaces as an authentication error.
exit('{87654321-4321-4321-4321-210987654321}');
end;
}

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codeunit 51300 "Sec Sample EnvGuid Good"
{
procedure KnownSystemId(): Guid
begin
// Stable across tenants and versions Base Application Id.
exit('{437dbf0e-84ff-417a-965d-ed2bb9650972}');
end;
procedure GetTenantId(): Text
var
EnvironmentInformation: Codeunit "Environment Information";
begin
// Environment-specific values are retrieved at runtime.
exit(EnvironmentInformation.GetTenantId());
end;
}

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---
bc-version: [all]
domain: security
keywords: [guid, tenant-id, aad, environment, hardcoded]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
---
# Hardcoded GUIDs are only safe for well-known system identifiers
## Description
AL code sometimes carries hardcoded GUIDs. Some are platform-defined, stable across tenants and versions, and legitimately constant — the Base Application's ApplicationId (`{437dbf0e-84ff-417a-965d-ed2bb9650972}`) is the canonical example. Others identify a specific tenant, a specific Azure Active Directory application, or a specific environment; these look identical at the source-code level but are environment-bound and break the moment the extension is deployed anywhere else. Shipping an environment-specific GUID as a constant effectively locks the extension to one environment, and the failure mode in other tenants is usually an authentication error with no code-level signal pointing at the literal.
## Best Practice
Hardcoded GUIDs are acceptable for well-known system identifiers that are stable across environments — document the identifier with a comment that names what it refers to. For tenant IDs, AAD application IDs, API subscription IDs, and any value that varies by deployment, retrieve at runtime from IsolatedStorage, configuration tables, or the platform APIs that expose the current tenant context.
See sample: `do-not-hardcode-environment-specific-guids.good.al`.
## Anti Pattern
`TenantId := '{12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012}';` or `AadApplicationId := '{87654321-...}';` inline in a codeunit. The extension authenticates in one environment and fails in every other; debugging starts from an AAD error message that does not mention the literal.
See sample: `do-not-hardcode-environment-specific-guids.bad.al`.