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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cookbook Effective recipes for developing and deploying applications with Dynamics 365 Business Central

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789958546
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Get the Basics out of the Way FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing What's Already There 3. Let's Go Beyond 4. Testing and Debugging - You Just Gotta Do It 5. Old School, Meet New School 6. Making Your App Extensible 7. Business Central for All 8. DevOps - Don't Live without It 9. Time to Share Your Application! 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Upgrading data from CAL objects

When you move a customer from a CAL solution to an AL one, you need to handle not only the source code, but also the data that was in any of the old CAL tables and fields. With the AL system architecture, the tables and fields will no longer be in the same place in the database as they were when they were based on CAL. As a result, the data will need to be moved from the CAL tables and fields to the AL ones.

This recipe will show you how you can move data from CAL objects to AL ones.

Getting ready

You need an AL development sandbox for this recipe, but since we're still dealing with CAL objects in this recipe, you need to make sure it's a specific version. The easiest method is to...

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