Al: Drag and drop fields on pages, reports, xmlports and queries
All the people I have showing the _modern development experience_ to are quite enthusiastic about it. However, the major drawback they all point at one way or another, is they cumbersomeness of adding a multitude of fields to pages, reports, xmlports and queries.
Were we had the field menu feature in C/SIDE, there is no comparable one in VSCode. Even the in-client designer does not allow to put more than one field at a time (unless there is a trick I do not know about).
So please, provide all those enthusiast with a feature like this.
lvanvugt
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I was thinking the same when I started to work with VSCode. I was putting to write an VSCode Extension on my "To-Do-List". After some weeks working without i wouldn't use this functionality anymore, because its much faster to write the code with snippets and autocompletion.
DennisReinecke
on 2 Feb 2018
Dennis, for me the same, but having been a teacher/trainer for ages, I know each individual has other ways of working, other preferences. And VSCode is advertised as a client supporting efficient and effective productivity for each user.
Having drag and drop will contribute to that for many of our peers.
lvanvugt
on 2 Feb 2018
Adding fields to pages with intellisense is fine, but I am missing page wizards as they allow me to build list and card prototypes quickly. For me it is a bit easier and faster to remove a few fields than to add most of them to an empty page. That's why I've created a context menu functions that create list and card pages form a table node in my "AL Code Outline" extension.
It would be nice if al language server could expose some custom language protocol messages to get more detailed information about current document symbols. This would allow us to create commands that could quickly generate bigger fragments of code instead of typing them manually.
anzwdev
on 2 Feb 2018
@anzwdev your extension is brilliant! I just discovered it and it will save me a LOT of time creating list pages quickly for large tables. Thanks!
ryancairnsy
on 15 Jan 2019
@anzwdev your extension is brilliant! I just discovered it and it will save me a LOT of time creating list pages quickly for large tables. Thanks!
I fully agree.
lvanvugt
on 15 Jan 2019
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Adding fields to pages with intellisense is fine, but I am missing page wizards as they allow me to build list and card prototypes quickly. For me it is a bit easier and faster to remove a few fields than to add most of them to an empty page. That's why I've created a context menu functions that create list and card pages form a table node in my "AL Code Outline" extension.
It would be nice if al language server could expose some custom language protocol messages to get more detailed information about current document symbols. This would allow us to create commands that could quickly generate bigger fragments of code instead of typing them manually.