Resolve al-testing-review.md by union: keep both main's additions from #196 and this
PR's already-approved changes.
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Each letter of a permission value is one permission, so `ri` is indirect
read plus indirect insert. The good sample granted a read-only
"Report Runner" role indirect insert on G/L Entry. Use `r` in the sample,
name the lowercase letters in Best Practice, replace the ri/ii/mi/di
keywords and cite the Microsoft Learn pages that define the letters.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add 3 more AL/BC patterns from CURABIS Academy testing course material
Third batch from CURABIS ApS: item-ledger-entry document-no lookup after Ship-and-Invoice posting, TestPage.Visible()/.Enabled() as the mechanism for verifying field UI state, and LibraryUtility.GenerateGUID() for collision-free test fixture values.
* Address Jesper Schulz-Wedde's review on PR #158
- use-generateguid-for-unique-test-fixture-values.md: GenerateGUID()
is a Code[10] number-series value, not a real GUID; truncating it
with CopyStr for a shorter field cuts off the changing digits. Point
to GenerateRandomCode/GenerateRandomCodeWithLength/GenerateRandomXMLText
instead, which verify uniqueness against the actual table.
- Split use-testpage-visible-enabled-to-verify-field-ui-state.md: drop
its editability claim (the sample opens with OpenView() and asserts
Enabled(), which verifies enabled state, not editability — Editable()
and Enabled() are distinct TestField methods). New companion article
use-testpage-editable-to-verify-field-editability.md covers Editable()
with OpenEdit() specifically.
- Wire GenerateGUID/CopyStr and TestPage Visible/Enabled/Editable cues
into al-testing-review.md, and the Item Ledger Entry/Last Shipping No.
posting cue into al-data-modeling-review.md.
The Item Ledger Entry article itself was independently verified against
current BCApps source and needs no changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Address second round of Jesper Schulz-Wedde's review on PR #158
- use-generateguid-for-unique-test-fixture-values.md/.good.al: documented
each LibraryUtility helper's actual behavior, verified against
LibraryUtility.Codeunit.al. GenerateRandomCode opens the target table as
a temporary RecordRef, so despite taking TableNo it never checks real
data. GenerateRandomXMLText performs no table lookup at all. Only
GenerateRandomCodeWithLength/GenerateRandomCode20 (capped at Code[10]/
Code[20]) genuinely verify against the real table. Fixture switched to
GenerateRandomCodeWithLength where the comment claims verified
uniqueness.
- al-testing-review.md: rewired the cue to catch the actual anti-pattern
(hardcoded literals, hand-built uniqueness, short-field GUID truncation)
instead of only matching the compliant GenerateGUID()+CopyStr shape;
broadened tokens to include TestPage, Library - Utility, and
.Visible()/.Enabled()/.Editable().
- al-data-modeling-review.md: restricted the Item Ledger Entry
Last-Shipping-No. cue to sales combined posting; purchase combined
posting is Receive+Invoice and uses different fields entirely.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Fix remaining correctness issues from Jesper's 2026-09-15 re-review
- use-generateguid-for-unique-test-fixture-values.md: narrowed the
collision rule to primary-key/unique-lookup fields - an ordinary
descriptive field carries no uniqueness constraint, so a hardcoded
or deterministic value there isn't the anti-pattern (the article and
its al-testing-review.md worklist cue both said "primary-key or
descriptive field"). Also corrected GenerateRandomCode: it opens its
target table as a temporary RecordRef that starts and stays empty,
so its repeat/until loop always exits after one iteration and never
retries even within a single test run - the "non-colliding within a
test run" claim was false. It's the rightmost N characters of
GenerateGUID()'s sequential series, so a short field's value cycles
(Code[1] repeats every 10 calls, Code[2] every 100). Verified against
LibraryUtility.Codeunit.al in the BCApps reference clone.
- item-ledger-entry-document-no-follows-last-shipping-no: both
fixtures called FindSet() without consuming its optional Boolean,
which raises a runtime error on an empty result set - the opposite
of the article's own claimed "silently matches zero rows, no error"
behavior. Wrapped in `if ... then;` per the existing
guard-database-reads.good.al idiom.
- al-data-modeling-review.md: widened both not-applicable scope
clauses (intro and outcome) to include dimension wiring, posting-
routine structure, and Item Ledger Entry document-number lookups -
the leaf declared itself not-applicable outside setup/master/key/
numbering/block/audit surfaces despite having a targeted cue for
this PR's own new article.
- Converted this PR's 8 plain-backtick "See sample: `x.good.al`."
references (across all 4 new articles) to the READ-convention
markdown-link form required by Knowledge-Retrieval.ps1.
Rebased onto upstream/main (one conflict in al-data-modeling-review.md
intro wording, merged).
* Stop routing GenerateRandomCode20 as compliant for shorter fields
al-testing-review.md's cue presented GenerateRandomCodeWithLength and
GenerateRandomCode20 as interchangeable options for "a shorter field
needing real verified uniqueness." They aren't: verified against
LibraryUtility.Codeunit.al, GenerateRandomCode20 truncates
GenerateGUID()'s sequential value down to the target field's length by
keeping the leftmost (slowest-changing) characters via PadStr, so its
retry loop against a field shorter than 20 can churn through the same
truncated prefix for a long time. GenerateRandomCodeWithLength has no
such problem (it generates exactly the requested length of random
text). The knowledge article itself already scoped GenerateRandomCode20
to Code[20] correctly - only the skill cue needed narrowing to match.
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* Add 18 community AL/BC patterns across style, data-modeling, web-services, appsource, breaking-changes, performance, and testing
Contributed by CURABIS ApS, generalized from patterns observed across real AppSource/PTE development. Each article follows the knowledge file format (frontmatter, Description/Best Practice/Anti Pattern, sibling .good.al/.bad.al samples).
* Address Jesper Schulz-Wedde's review on PR #156
- Rename 3 articles so their .good.al/.bad.al companion stems match
(do-not-change-primary-key, testfield-required-setup-field,
al-identifiers-english), fixing the R14 orphan-sample errors.
- do-not-change-primary-key.good.al: include Flow in the new table's
own primary key so it actually models the discriminating dimension.
- al-build-output-must-not-pollute-project-root.md: drop the
unsubstantiated AL0197 causal claim and the non-existent
al.outputPath setting; reframe as build-artifact hygiene sourced
from ALTool --outfolder / al_build outputPath.
- prefer-email-module.md: Email Message is Codeunit 8904, not a table;
distinguish it from the underlying Sent/Outbox/Draft storage.
- file-datatype-saas.md: File.Open/Create/Read/Write fails to compile
against a Cloud-scoped project, it does not compile and silently
fail at runtime.
- namespace-must-be-verified-from-source.md: narrow to "resolve from
the referenced object's source or symbols," since source-file line
one is not the only authoritative source (symbol packages, comments
before the namespace line).
- test-data-must-be-random-and-complete.md: drop "assume an empty
database" and "collision-free" absolutes; reframe around
independence from unrelated business records and reserving explicit
values for scenario-defining inputs.
- binary-choice-must-be-boolean.md: scope to genuine true/false
semantics, not mechanical two-member-enum-to-boolean conversion.
- document-report-word-layout.md: scope down to a sourced Microsoft
Learn recommendation instead of an unconditional performance
guarantee; cite the three Learn pages.
- Wire the new articles into their review skills' candidate-selection
signals (file-datatype-saas, prefer-email-module,
namespace-must-be-verified-from-source, var-parameters-require-an-
addressable-variable) so they can actually enter a worklist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Fix dimension-management-wiring.md: ValidateShortcutDimCode and CreateDim
do not exist on the current DimensionManagement codeunit
Verified against microsoft/BCApps: the real master-table validation
procedure is ValidateDimValueCode (or ValidateShortcutDimValues when a
DimSetID is also needed), and the real document-side inheritance
procedure is GetDefaultDimID, not CreateDim. Caught from Jesper
Schulz-Wedde's review thread, which had been partially hidden by
GitHub's comment folding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Address second round of Jesper Schulz-Wedde's review on PR #156
- dimension-management-wiring.md/.good.al: split into the two distinct
models the article was conflating - master data (Default Dimension
records via ValidateDimValueCode/SaveDefaultDim) vs. transactional/
document data (a single Dimension Set ID assembled via AddDimSource +
GetDefaultDimID, verified against BCApps' ExchRateAdjmtProcess.Codeunit.al).
Added a compiling document-table example alongside the existing master
table one.
- Deleted api-page-flowfields-must-be-calcfields (.md/.good.al/.bad.al):
Microsoft's own FlowFields documentation states a FlowField used as a
control's direct source expression is automatically calculated on any
page - no API-page exception is documented, and none could be
reproduced.
- prefer-email-module.bad.al/.md: Codeunit Mail has no Send/GetErrorDesc
members; fixed to the real current 7-argument CreateMessage signature,
and corrected the claim that the legacy path "still runs" - its base
implementation no longer sends anything, only raises integration events.
- check-post-line-batch-pattern.md/.good.al: reframed from a universal
invariant to the standard shape, naming the real Gen./Item/CA/Res./Job/
Insurance/Mfg. Item/FA Jnl.-Check Line/-Post Line/-Post Batch codeunits
it's based on. Added the missing Check Line companion codeunit so the
good fixture is internally complete.
- test-data-must-be-random-and-complete.good.al: removed leftover
"collision-free" wording contradicting the already-corrected article text.
- fixed-choice-set-must-use-enum-not-integer.md: removed the reintroduced
state-count heuristic ("the line is the state count"), aligned with
binary-choice-must-be-boolean.md's semantics-based distinction.
- namespace-must-be-verified-from-source.md: removed the false claim that
the compiler and AL Language Server use different namespace-resolution
rules.
- intrinsic-al-functions-must-use-modern-casing.md: removed the unverified
claim that PascalCase is the VS Code formatter's default output.
Worklist completeness: added cues for the 8 rules in data-modeling,
testing, performance, and web-services that had none (Jesper's explicit
ask), plus the same gap in all 7 style rules from this PR (not explicitly
named this round, but the identical systemic issue) - 15 cues total across
al-data-modeling-review.md, al-testing-review.md, al-performance-review.md,
al-web-services-review.md, and al-style-review.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Fix remaining correctness issues from Jesper's 2026-09-15 re-review
- dimension-management-wiring: SaveDefaultDim's third argument is the
shortcut dimension number (1-8), not the field's AL field ID; the
fixture passed FieldNo(...) = 10. GetDefaultDimID's InheritFromDimSetID
must be 0 when recomputing after the linking record changes, not the
document's existing Dimension Set ID (which would retain the previous
customer's leftover dimensions). Verified against
DimensionManagement.Codeunit.al and BankDepositHeader.Table.al in the
BCApps reference clone.
- check-post-line-batch-pattern: "Post Line writes exactly one line to
the ledger" overclaimed - Gen. Jnl.-Post Line alone calls InsertGLEntry
from a dozen call sites (balancing entry, VAT, currency rounding,
deferrals) and can write several G/L Entries per journal line.
Reworded to "posts exactly one journal line" and softened the
"distinct, non-overlapping responsibilities" absolute.
- namespace-must-be-verified-from-source.bad.al: dropped the "resolves
in a local build, fails in VS Code" comment (taught an inherent
compiler/language-server disagreement that isn't real); reframed as
stale/cached symbols, matching the prose fix already made.
- file-datatype-saas.good.al: replaced the deprecated 5-argument
UploadIntoStream overload with the current 2-argument one, and
actually staged through TempBlob as the article's own Best Practice
instructs (the declared TempBlob variable was previously unused).
- test-data-must-be-random-and-complete: no longer treats a
short-but-valid value as defective merely for being "underfilled" -
AL field lengths are maxima, not minimums. Scoped to missing values
or a scenario with an explicit length/format requirement (e.g. a
truncation test). Updated the al-testing-review.md routing cue to
match.
- stored-derived-fields-must-not-be-exposed-directly: stopped mandating
source-field exposure as part of the core pattern: the good fixture
exposed only one of the derived value's two inputs (Hours Used, not
Budgeted Hours), making the claimed "so the consumer can verify it"
impossible. Reframed as an optional, all-or-nothing addition and
fixed the fixture to expose both inputs.
Rebased onto upstream/main to resolve conflicts in
al-breaking-changes-review.md, al-data-modeling-review.md,
al-performance-review.md, and al-style-review.md against merged PRs
#148 and #153; all sides' worklist tokens/cues retained.
* Fix remaining READ-convention sample links across this PR's 18 articles
The same plain-backtick "See sample: \`x.good.al\`." form fixed on
al-methods-limited-during-write-transactions (PR #161) turned up
repo-wide on 15 more of this PR's articles - Knowledge-Retrieval.ps1
requires the markdown-link form to associate a sample with its
article. All 16 fixed; the four local validators (frontmatter,
knowledge-index, knowledge-retrieval, review-fixtures, skill-index)
pass.
* Fix two merge-critical correctness issues from Jesper's 2026-09-22 review
- api-page-key-fields-must-be-editable-on-insert.good.al and
stored-derived-fields-must-not-be-exposed-directly.good.al: both were
writable API pages missing DelayedInsert = true, contradicting this
repo's own api-page-delayedinsert-true rule - the canonical "good"
samples were teaching code BCQuality itself flags.
- dimension-management-wiring.good.al: UpdateDimensionSetID exited
early when Customer.Get failed, leaving the previous customer's
shortcut dimension and Dimension Set ID in place - the same staleness
bug the InheritFromDimSetID = 0 fix (from the prior review round) was
meant to prevent, just triggered by a failed lookup instead of a
successful one. Now clears the shortcut field and recomputes with an
empty source list on a failed lookup too, so GetDefaultDimID
correctly returns an empty Dimension Set ID instead of never running.
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The "Category Code" field had no TableRelation at all, so the good
subscriber's RemoveTableRelation call targeted metadata that never
existed - a no-op. Added a real TableRelation to "Sample Setup" on
that field (the one known exception to exclude) and a second,
ordinary self-referencing relation ("Parent No." -> "Sample
Header"."No.") with no exception. The good fixture now removes only
the first; the bad fixture's table-wide removal (field/related
table/field all 0) now demonstrably also strips the second, showing
the actual anti-pattern instead of removing nothing meaningful.
- al-testing-review.md: the generic ExpectedError cue's asserterror
Assert.IsTrue/IsFalse exclusion was unconditional, but the
specialized rule it deferred to only claims the pure-inversion
shape. A test expecting the guarded Boolean-returning call itself to
raise fell through both routes. Narrowed the exclusion to the same
inversion-only condition the specialized cue already uses.
- asserterror-needs-expectederror-and-code.md: the rollback-sentinel
exception (a trailing asserterror Error(...) used purely to force a
fixture rollback, not to verify a specific failure) previously lived
only in skill routing prose. Encoded it directly in the article's
Anti Pattern section so every consumer of the knowledge base sees it,
not just this one skill.
- commit-shared-test-fixture-inside-lazy-initialize.good.al/.bad.al:
replaced hand-rolled Item.Init()/Insert(true) with
LibraryInventory.CreateItem, so the canonical fixture doesn't itself
trigger use-library-codeunits-for-test-fixtures.
- table-relation-test-exclude-known-invalid-relations-via-event.good.al/
.bad.al: declared minimal "Sample Setup"/"Sample Header" tables
inline instead of referencing undefined symbols, matching this
repo's own convention that every fixture is self-contained.
- commit-shared-test-fixture-inside-lazy-initialize: three sub-issues.
Recommended TestIsolation = Codeunit instead of listing Disabled as an
equal option - Disabled never rolls back at all ("tests are not
isolated from each other" per the property's own docs), so a fixture
this pattern commits under Disabled is permanent database
contamination unless something else tears it down; Disabled is now
only mentioned alongside that explicit teardown requirement. Added
precedence in al-testing-review.md so the deliberate end-of-test
asserterror Error(...) rollback sentinel isn't also flagged by the
generic asserterror-needs-expectederror-and-code rule. Rewrote both
fixtures to actually demonstrate the pattern: persisted fixture data
(an Item record) instead of an empty comment, a second [Test] method
that depends on the fixture surviving into it, and an explicit
Subtype = TestRunner / TestIsolation = Codeunit runner codeunit.
- table-relation-test-exclude-known-invalid-relations-via-event:
the length/type rule was stated as one global requirement. Verified
ValidateFieldRelation in codeunit 134926 directly (BCApps reference
clone) and split it into the two branches the source actually has:
a field with any unconditional relation needs exact length and exact
resolved type; a field whose relations are all conditional only fails
on being shorter (longer is fine) than the largest related field, and
when the required type is specifically Code, a Text source passes too
- a tolerance that does not apply on the unconditional side and does
not extend to a required Text.
Rebased onto upstream/main (one conflict in
transactionmodel-attribute-governs-test-transactions.md - upstream had
already linked its sample references via the READ convention, ours
added a Source section; merged both). Also converted the 3 remaining
plain-backtick sample references in this PR to the READ-convention
markdown-link form, same fix as #156/#157/#158.
- commit-shared-test-fixture-inside-lazy-initialize.md: fundamentally
rewritten. AutoCommit is the documented default TransactionModel, not
AutoRollback. Explains the real mechanism (Commit() protects a fixture
from the test method's own later deliberate rollback, per Codeunit.Run/
TransactionModel-property semantics) and the TestIsolation dependency
(Disabled/Codeunit survive across methods, Function does not). Fixtures
rewritten to demonstrate the actual failure/success shape.
- transactionmodel-attribute-governs-test-transactions.md: now states the
AutoCommit default explicitly and agrees with the article above, closing
the contradiction Jesper flagged between the two testing articles.
- Deleted confirm-needs-strsubstno-before-confirmhandler-sees-substituted-text
(.md/.good.al/.bad.al): the underlying platform bug (microsoft/
ALAppExtensions#23935) was closed as completed in Feb 2024; cannot be
reproduced or bc-version-pinned on any currently supported version.
- table-relation-test-exclude-known-invalid-relations-via-event.md: added
the [Scope('OnPrem')] boundary verified against BCApps' Table Relation
Test codeunit.
- use-assert-isfalse-not-asserterror-for-boolean-checks.md: added a Scope
section resolving the overlap with asserterror-needs-expectederror-and-code.
- al-testing-review.md: fixed the shared-fixture cue to catch the actual
anti-pattern instead of the compliant shape, added the missing cue for
use-assert-isfalse-not-asserterror-for-boolean-checks, wired precedence
between it and the generic asserterror rule, and removed the cue for the
deleted article.
- Added in-file Source provenance (specific fluxxus.nl post per article,
with what was independently verified vs. taken from the post) to the
three surviving externally-inspired articles, per Jesper's request that
provenance live in the knowledge file itself, not only the PR description.
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- transactionmodel-attribute-governs-test-transactions.md: the "Commit
causes an error" behavior is specific to an explicitly declared
AutoRollback attribute. A test method with no TransactionModel
attribute at all is a distinct, valid shape — BCApps' own
codeunit 134915 "ERM Online Mapping Setup" commits inside a lazy
Initialize() with no attribute declared, cleaning up via a manual
asserterror at the end. Evidence for commit-shared-test-fixture-
inside-lazy-initialize.md (this PR), which is correct as submitted.
- confirm-needs-strsubstno-before-confirmhandler-sees-substituted-text.md:
reframe as a known, unconfirmed-fix platform defect
(microsoft/ALAppExtensions#23935) rather than designed behavior; add
the Message/MessageHandler asymmetry as supporting evidence.
- table-relation-test-exclude-known-invalid-relations-via-event.md:
note the test-app-only consumer dependency; correct "walks every
TableRelation field property in the app" to the actual tenant-wide
Table Relations Metadata scope across installed apps.
- Wire confirm-needs-strsubstno, commit-shared-test-fixture-inside-
lazy-initialize, and table-relation-test-exclude-known-invalid-
relations-via-event into al-testing-review.md's candidate-selection
cues.
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Fourth batch from CURABIS ApS, mined from an external BC/NAV testing expert's blog archive (fluxxus.nl). Confirm+StrSubstNo interaction with ConfirmHandler, Table Relation Test's OnAfterRemoveTableRelation exclusion hook (verified against BCApps source, codeunit 134926), committing shared lazy-Initialize fixture data, and Assert.IsFalse vs asserterror for boolean checks.
* Add Finance posting domain-knowledge pilot
Adds three atomic domain-rule knowledge files under community/knowledge/finance/ as a pilot for Type-A (normative) Business Central domain knowledge: post through the posting engine, treat posted ledger entries as immutable, and treat the Dimension Set ID as the source of truth for dimensions. Includes a good/bad AL sample pair for the posting rule.
These encode BC-specific invariants that LLMs reliably get wrong, fitting the existing remedial/atomic knowledge grain with no schema or contract changes. Passes the repo frontmatter validator and is discovered by the knowledge index.
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* Clarify editable operational fields on posted ledger entries
Addresses review feedback from @JeremyVyska on PR #57: the immutability rule applies to financial content, not the whole entry. Reframes the Description around financial content and gives the operational-field exception (payment/application data, on-hold, applies-to, communication fields edited via CustEntry-Edit/VendEntry-Edit and the ledger entry pages) its own paragraph in Best Practice instead of understating it as a narrow set.
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* Expand Finance pilot into a source-verified review domain
Move Finance knowledge to the Microsoft-owned layer, add nine scoped rules with eighteen AL samples, and register bounded Finance review with complete paired evaluation coverage.
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* Fix Finance review applicability and ownership boundaries
Remove application-area gating and later VAT-field dependencies, align dynamic shared conventions, separate SCM ownership, and keep journal examples focused on the intended invariant.
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* Remove logo branding (#194)
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* Add title and description to README
* Add foundational AL developer knowledge (#195)
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* Clarify locale-safe DateFormula Evaluate inputs (#193)
* Clarify locale-safe DateFormula Evaluate inputs
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* Normalize DateFormula article sections
Keep the analyzer-gap explanation in Description and its scoped probe evidence in References, without a novel Validation section. Normative guidance and fixtures are unchanged.
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* Add SCM functional knowledge domain (#192)
* Add SCM functional knowledge domain
Introduce nine source-backed rules with original AL sample pairs, bounded SCM review routing, and complete positive/clean evaluation coverage.
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* Normalize SCM knowledge and review ownership
Align article and AL sample conventions, keep BC facts separate from review mechanics, and clarify reciprocal Finance ownership without bespoke shared test assertions.
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Use [\slug.good.al\](slug.good.al) form so tools/Knowledge-Retrieval.ps1
Assert-SampleLink validation passes.
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New remedial article for spotting when AL calls an endpoint that does not
authenticate itself to the client (bare HttpClient.Get, blank SOAP SecretText,
post-DisableHttpsCheck HTTP) and requires the response to be size-, schema-, and
request/response-integrity-validated before it is trusted. Includes the
BC-specific false-positive clarifications (platform buffers the full body, so an
in-AL size check after buffering is correct; no DNS-rebinding/bounded-read demand;
HTTPS not always enforceable) plus good/bad AL samples.
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* knowledge(events): ChangeCompany leaves triggers and trigger-event subscribers running in the calling company
ChangeCompany redirects only the data access of a record variable; Learn states that triggers still run in the current company. The database trigger events are raised on every database operation and only pass RunTrigger to the subscriber, so Insert(false) after ChangeCompany still runs every subscriber in the calling company. Generated code either assumes the record 'becomes' a target-company record, or switches RunTrigger off and hand-copies the trigger logic, leaving the subscribers writing to the wrong company; none of the tested runs reached StartSession with the company parameter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* knowledge(events): qualify StartSession async semantics and fix concurrency-unsafe sample key
Addresses PR #152 review: StartSession is a fire-and-forget background
session (Ok reports only whether it started, not whether the codeunit
succeeded, and errors inside it do not propagate), so the Best Practice
now scopes the recommendation and calls out the durable status/error
channel a synchronous-success write needs. The good sample's
FindLast()+1 entry-number pattern raced under concurrent background
sessions; switched to AutoIncrement, which the platform guarantees is
unique across concurrent transactions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* knowledge(events): serialize the setup-counter increment; promote article and wire the review skill
PR #152 round 3 (JesperSchulz):
- The good sample's OnAfterInsertEvent subscriber still raced on the
shared "Transfer Setup Good" singleton (Get/increment/Modify);
AutoIncrement only protected the request key. Added
TransferSetup.LockTable() before Get() to serialize concurrent
background sessions.
- Promoted changecompany-runs-triggers-in-the-calling-company from
community/knowledge/events/ to microsoft/knowledge/events/, and wired
ChangeCompany/StartSession/RunTrigger tokens plus a targeted
detection cue into microsoft/skills/review/al-events-review.md so a
diff containing the anti-pattern reliably worklists this article,
preserving the documented RunTrigger=false hand-off exception.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Generate a deterministic action-skill index from frontmatter, publish structural schemas for orchestration and findings, and validate flat review composition in CI.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: dayland <dayland@microsoft.com>
Copilot-Session: 76eb42c4-2acd-4f9c-a898-f4a44f9d46f7
Use the required READ-convention Markdown links so knowledge retrieval can associate all new samples with their articles.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: dayland <dayland@microsoft.com>
Copilot-Session: 76eb42c4-2acd-4f9c-a898-f4a44f9d46f7
* Add bounded knowledge retrieval
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Copilot-Session: 0d8b7764-f15a-49ea-8d50-d9147334f8af
* Fix bc-version overflow and pathless-row identity in bounded retrieval
Catalog matching compared an Int32 -BCVersion against a bigint range bound.
PowerShell coerces the right operand to the left operand's type, so a bound
wider than Int32 threw a conversion error and failed the whole domain catalog
rather than the single row. Metadata validation already accepts such bounds,
so compare as bigint on both sides.
The shared pager built its oversized-row message with $row.path, which
throws under Set-StrictMode -Version Latest when a row carries no path,
replacing the explicit bound failure with a property-lookup error. Resolve the
path defensively for dictionary and object rows so the offset-based fallback
is reachable.
Both paths gain regression coverage that fails without these fixes.
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 0d8b7764-f15a-49ea-8d50-d9147334f8af
Retire deterministic compiler and analyzer duplicates, remove their review routing, and clarify the admission test for contextual analyzer knowledge.
Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Remove historical naming and external orchestrator references, and present the app-folder review as one example of the broader host-native skill pattern.
Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* Document standalone review runner contract
Keep model selection and scheduling outside BCQuality while allowing orchestrators to run isolated review leaves concurrently with deterministic rollup semantics.
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* Support complete app folder reviews
Define folder-path as a current-state review scope and accept it across the standalone adapter, broad coordinator, and every AL review leaf.
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add walk-up app review quick start
Put the complete app-folder installation and prompt flow directly in the README so partners can discover the standalone experience without reading integration details first.
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* Organize conceptual guides under docs
Move architecture and standalone runner documentation out of the repository root, add a documentation index, and update all inbound links.
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Move canonical knowledge for Microsoft-owned review domains into the Microsoft layer and document the skill/knowledge co-location policy.
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Copilot-Session: 2a6ea875-d38e-4f30-aadb-0d606f9be231
* Simplify standalone AL review skill
Rename the host-facing skill to al-code-review, reduce it to a thin Entry adapter, document the architecture, and validate host skill metadata.
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: af96bb3d-893a-48a2-8298-c8f4271c162c
* Anchor plugin paths at PLUGIN_ROOT and restore the layer-filter caveat
The adapter delegated index preparation to Entry's Preparation step, but that
step is written for the clone model: it runs `pwsh ./tools/Build-KnowledgeIndex.ps1`
from the checkout root. A plugin host's working directory is the user's own
project, so the path does not resolve and the index is never built. Because
knowledge-index.json is gitignored, a fresh install has none, and READ silently
degrades to path-based discovery. The adapter now resolves Entry's repo-relative
paths against PLUGIN_ROOT and names the absolute index build; the generator
resolves its own root, so it indexes and writes the right tree from any cwd.
Entry also asserted that pruning has always happened before it runs, which is
false for an installation that ships the whole tree. Entry now scopes that
guarantee to consumers that actually prune, and the caveat dropped in the
rewrite - that enabled-layers narrows discovery rather than denying access - is
restored in the adapter and summarized in the README.
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Copilot-Session: 0b67b90d-e4b4-4b92-9684-726c72c43b3f
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Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: af96bb3d-893a-48a2-8298-c8f4271c162c
Copilot-Session: 0b67b90d-e4b4-4b92-9684-726c72c43b3f
What an API page publishes for an enum field depends on the OData schema
version: member names under 2.0, the caption as Edm.String under 1.0, never
the ordinal. Custom APIs defaulted to 1.0 through BC 23 and to 2.0 from BC 24.
LLMs assert one carrier as universal and get one direction wrong.
Co-authored-by: waldo1001 <12088142+waldo1001@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Avoid Public Event publisher
* knowledge(events): scope public-publisher detection to same-app raisers
The detection rule flagged every public event publisher, including ones
deliberately public so a sibling app can raise them - a contract `internal`
cannot express across app boundaries. Scope the finding to publishers that
are public although only their own app raises them, and record the
cross-app case as a valid Best Practice option.
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 0b67b90d-e4b4-4b92-9684-726c72c43b3f
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Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 0b67b90d-e4b4-4b92-9684-726c72c43b3f
* feat(community/agents): add AL agent quality guidance
- add 20 agent knowledge rules with good and bad AL samples
- clarify setup dialog shape, temporary persistence, permissions, profiles, instructions, capability registration, and interface wiring
- add the community-owned AL agents review skill
- make review fixture discovery layer-aware with custom, community, and Microsoft precedence
- document layer-aware evaluation behavior
* fix(community/agents): align setup and permission samples
- mark agent setup pages as non-extensible where required
- narrow the agent profile by hiding an unrelated sales-order field
- define a dedicated read-only permission set for the sales review agent
- assign AL-defined permission sets with system scope and the owning app ID
- clarify the permission scope guidance for default access controls
* Address agent review feedback
* ShowMandatory + OnQueryClosePage Check
* Tighten mandatory-field review guidance
Require explicit ShowMandatory in the good sample, acknowledge that NotBlank marking is unreliable, and limit findings to visible editable controls on paths where users must supply a value.
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 89dba8c8-6529-4b60-956f-875a59be499d
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Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Copilot-Session: 89dba8c8-6529-4b60-956f-875a59be499d
