Text Exports of Objects
Using a developer license, we are allowed to export objects into text files, where we can use a text editor to examine or even manipulate the result. Let us take a look at an object that has been exported into text and imported into your favorite text editor. We will use one of the tables that is part of our WDTU development, the Playlist Item Rate
table, 50004 as shown in the following screenshot:
The general structure of all the exported objects is similar, with just those differences that we would expect for the different objects. This particular table contains no C/AL-coded logic, as those statements would be visible in the text listing. We can see by looking at this table object that we could easily search for instances of the string Code
throughout the text export of the entire system, but it would be more difficult to look for references to Playlist Item Rates because it is only referenced by page ID, Page50005
. While we can find the instances of Code...