AL Object Helper

Quick and easy access to any al object in your project

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About this project

With this package you can quickly open all your local and app al files. Use shortcuts to open files even faster (for example t18 to open the customer table or p5050 to open the contact card).
It supports a better event search than the integrated one and let you search for an event subscriber.

In a app al file, it is possible to view definitions and hover over them.
This functionality may still contain errors. Possibly there are also definitions which have not yet been implemented. Please report those on the issue page.

Features and Commands

Open and search al objects

With the command Open AL Object (Ctrl + Alt + O) you can easly open any al object. You can use shortcuts to quickly open a object (More about this in Object Shortcuts). It is also possible to search only in one specific app with the command Open AL Object of App.

Local and app package al objects

Both local and app package files are supported. All app packages will be detected and read when opening the workspace and can be manually detected with the command Reload Objects.

Copy events

The improved Copy Event command (Shift + Alt + E) uses a object grouped search and provides the events faster than the integrated one. Go to Important Infos to learn how to use the improved search.

Local event subscribers

If you are searching for a event you already subscribed to, you can use the command Jump to local Event Subscriber to quickly search through all your local files and jump right to the subscriber.

Object Extensions

If you are in a extension object (for example a table extension) you can navigate to the parent object by running the command Open extended Object. In, for example, a table you can view all objects which extended this table by running the command Show Extensions.

Support for app package cache

If you got a global app package cache it will only read the packages for your platform version or higher if no package for the current version is available (It uses the last project if you are using a workspace).

Support for runtime packages

It extracts as much information as possible from the runtime packages. This feature is still in preview and will have missing pieces. So report any weird behaviour on GitHub. The Code itself is not in the runtime package, so it is not possible to display any. What can be and will be extracted from runtime packages:

• Properties
• Global Function Definitions
• Global Integration and Business Event Definitions
• Global variables
• Fields
• Page Controls
• Page Actions

At the moment, those type of objects will be extracted:

• Codeunits
• Interfaces
• Table and Table extensions
• Page, Page extensions and Page customizations
• Enum and Enum extensions

Performance Modes

Specifies in which mode AL Object Helper should run. This mode is useful if the computer is not to powerful to load everything.

Normal

Reads everything at startup and load everything needed when a command gets executed.

Performance

Only reads necessary files on startup, but read additional informations on certain commands.

Hyper Performance

Only reads necessary files on startup. This can not be overruled, except if a specific app get reloaded in mode "Full reload" (Command Reread App)

Planned features

• Automatically research when changing branch
• AL Object List
• Read runtime apps

Object Shortcuts

To quickly open any object you can use a object shortcut.
Just run the command Open AL Object and use the type shortcut and the object id as follow:

Examples

Ex. T27 for Item Table

Ex. P21 for Customer Page

Important Infos

If you use the latest version of the AL Language Extension by Microsoft, you have to remove the "AL: Find Event" keybinding to use the integrated search.

It is possible to jump to definition within an AL file. This is a new feature and may still contain errors. Possibly there are also definitions which have not yet been implemented. Please report these in the Git Repository.

Requirements

AL Language

Commands

• Open AL Object: Search for any object (Shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + O)
• Open AL Object of App: Search for any object in a specific app
• Copy Event: Search and copy any event of a object (Shortcut: Shift + Alt + E)
• Jump to local Event Subscriber: Search for a local event subscriber and jump right to it
• Open extended Object: Open the extended object of the current object
• Show Extensions: Show all extensions for the current object
• Reload: Reload and reread all al objects according the user configurations
• Reread App: Rereads a certain app which options to fully read the app and ignore the user configurations

Planned features

• Only read apps that are defined as dependency