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New domains:
- privacy (11 articles): DataClassification inheritance semantics, the
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  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.

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bc-version: [all]
domain: upgrade
keywords: [upgrade-codeunit, onupgradepercompany, onupgradeperdatabase, structure]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
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# Call named methods from OnUpgrade triggers; keep the triggers empty of logic
## Description
An upgrade codeunit (`Subtype = Upgrade`) runs its triggers once per upgrade scope. Inlining upgrade logic inside the trigger body mixes the entry point with the work, makes individual steps untestable in isolation, and prevents the standard upgrade-tag guard pattern from being applied cleanly. The convention across Business Central's own upgrade codeunits is that `OnUpgradePerCompany` and `OnUpgradePerDatabase` are a list of calls to named local procedures, each implementing one step behind its own upgrade-tag check.
## Best Practice
Keep `OnUpgradePerCompany` and `OnUpgradePerDatabase` to a list of `UpgradeXxx();` statements. Put every data migration, default, or correction in a named local procedure whose first action is the upgrade-tag guard. Empty trigger bodies are also acceptable as placeholders on a new codeunit with no current steps.
See sample: `call-methods-from-onupgrade-triggers-not-inline-code.good.al`.
## Anti Pattern
Writing `Customer.ModifyAll(...)`, `TableX.SetRange(...)` + loops, or `DataTransfer.CopyFields()` directly inside the trigger body. The step is untagged, untestable, and re-runs on every upgrade.
See sample: `call-methods-from-onupgrade-triggers-not-inline-code.bad.al`.