Most of the corpus — FindSet/SetLoadFields/CalcFields patterns, permission sets, SingleInstance codeunits, DataClassification, IsolatedStorage, transaction scope, SecretText — describes BC platform behaviour that is identical across supported versions. The seed [26..28] range on every file implied a version-specificity the content does not actually have, and there was no way to express "applies to every version" in the schema the way [w1] and [all] already do for countries and application-area. Extend the v1 schema with a universal sentinel for bc-version, parallel to the sentinels already defined for the other dimensions: bc-version: [all] # applies to every BC version [all] is mutually exclusive with explicit versions. Range shorthand ([26..28]) and explicit lists ([26, 27, 28]) continue to work for files genuinely tied to a version-gated API or deprecation. Update read.md (field definition, matching semantics, partial-context rule), write.md (default to [all], use ranges only with a concrete reason), README.md (frontmatter example), and the CI validator. All forty existing knowledge files and the three action skills convert to [all]; none of the current content is version-gated. Validator passes.
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Use SingleInstance codeunits for session caching
Seed article. Converted from an existing performance-review prompt to bootstrap the BCQuality performance corpus. Domain stewards should expand, restructure, and refine as needed.
Description
A SingleInstance codeunit lives once per session. Variables on it survive across calls, which makes it the natural home for data that is expensive to compute, read often, and stable for the duration of the session — feature flags, configuration snapshots, setup records. Each cached value avoids a SQL read per subsequent call site.
Best Practice
Store long-lived, read-often, rarely-changing data on a SingleInstance codeunit, populated lazily on first access. Keep the cached footprint small: a handful of booleans, a setup record, a few derived values. Be explicit about invalidation if the source can change during the session.
See sample: use-single-instance-codeunits-for-caching.good.al.
Anti Pattern
Reading the same setup record on every call from every caller, instead of caching it, repeats a SQL round-trip that has no business happening more than once per session.