bcquality/custom/knowledge/patterns/cmfrt-use-confirmmanagement.md
BeytullahCengiz88 c72c0ad685 Add CMFRT coding standards documentation and examples
- Introduced guidelines for "one codeunit one global function" architecture to enforce single responsibility in AL code.
- Added best practices and anti-patterns for adding parameters via overloads to maintain backward compatibility.
- Documented the importance of never deleting members in AL and always marking them as obsolete.
- Established the requirement for OnBefore and OnAfter integration events for global procedures to enhance extensibility.
- Defined naming conventions for CMFRT objects, including prefixes and object ID ranges to avoid conflicts.
- Implemented patterns for case statements to ensure all cases are handled, including the necessity of an else clause.
- Introduced the interface injection pattern to allow pluggable operations in table-level code.
- Recommended using Confirm Management for user confirmations to improve testability.
- Established a three-permission set pattern for security to ensure proper access control.
- Created a review skill for CMFRT AL standards to automate compliance checks against established guidelines.
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bc-version: [all]
domain: patterns
keywords: [confirm, confirmmanagement, dialog, user-confirmation, test, automation, testability]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
---
# CMFRT use ConfirmManagement instead of Confirm
## Description
CMFRT AL code must use the `"Confirm Management"` codeunit to prompt the user for confirmation instead of calling the `Confirm` built-in function directly. `"Confirm Management"` wraps `Confirm` and resolves confirmation dialogs without displaying UI during automated test runs, making test behaviour deterministic. The `Confirm` built-in always renders a modal dialog regardless of execution context, which causes automated tests to hang waiting for user input.
## Best Practice
Declare `ConfirmManagement: Codeunit "Confirm Management";` as a local variable and call `ConfirmManagement.GetResponseOrDefault(QuestionLbl, true)`. The codeunit suppresses the dialog automatically in test context. Use a `Label` for the question text so it is translatable.
See sample: `cmfrt-use-confirmmanagement.good.al`.
## Anti Pattern
Calling `if Confirm(QuestionText, true) then` directly. Direct `Confirm` calls are not interceptable by the test framework: the modal dialog appears during automated test runs, causing the test to stall indefinitely or fail with a UI-interaction error. Tests that hit a `Confirm` call cannot be run in a CI pipeline without manual intervention.
See sample: `cmfrt-use-confirmmanagement.bad.al`.