Layers News

Well MS have recently announced that they are doing the country localisations in the GLS layer, so where does that leave things ?

I am sure that unless someone is very very carefull we will see some strange issues regarding field numbers, for those who know skip my explanation.

In Dynamics Ax all objects (Tables, Fields, Classes, Methods, Reports etc) aside from their names receive a number which is used to reference them in the code, the P Code or run time code that the Ax compiler creates uses the numbers to reference items not the name as this would take up to much space and would also significantly slow down execution.

The numbers in question are alloted based on the layer in which the elements are created, that is 0 upwards is SYS etc, what will now happen with elements that have been migrated from the old setup where the SYS code was in SYS, GLS, LOS and DIS to no being only in SYS and GLS. One can only hope that they have kept the numbers from Verson 3 when building but also we could have phantom numbers apppearing because of certain localisations having been present when add-ons or code was made and now thos numbers could be re-used by other code.

Fortunately the compiler is pretty good at at least enforcing type casting, but well this could be an interesting issue to follow in the future.

/Sven