Al: Debugger: How to set a watch on a field

[lvanvugt]

In NAV 2018 it seems not possible to set a watch on a field of a record variable. Or am doing something wrong?
What ever I do, the watch always says _Not available_.

SO this is on NAV 2018. Due to technical issues I cannot check it this very moment on D365BC. Curious whether it does work there. The various preview update announcement do not mention anything on this topic anyway.

[lvanvugt]

Today I experienced it somewhat different. It does work, but apparently not for the Rec variable. Is that right?

[kalberes]

It works for me. Just add rec, or a rec.[field name] to the watch.

[lvanvugt]

@kalberes , I guess this is on D365BC?

[kalberes]

As far as I know it should work on NAv 2018 too.

[BartPermentier]

table."field name" works for me v2.0.42188.
However you need to type it in the watch list like some sort of caveman...
I hope they plan to bring back r-click -> add to watch for record variables.

[kalberes]

Long term plan is to have intellisense in the watch window. We'll see what options we have for adding variables with VScode's gestures to the watch window

[tfenster]

While in a debug session you can mark an expression -> right click -> Add to watch

[lvanvugt]

While in a debug session you can mark an expression -> right click -> Add to watch

Yep, used that one too. But still have issues with (implicit references to) Rec variable.

[tfenster]

Ok, that probably will need to happen in the AL extension as we can't expect VS Code to understand how that works :)