AL Object ID Ninja

Zero-configuration, dead-simple, lightning fast, no-collision object ID assignment for multi-user repositories

  • No collisions, ever: Real-time, conflict-free ID assignment that always gives every developer a guaranteed unique object ID.
  • Lightning-fast: Get your conflict-free object IDs instantly, with IntelliSense integration.
  • Zero-configuration: No setup, no onboarding, no settings — you work exactly like before, and it silently keeps your IDs clean.
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From the blog

Warehouse Management quickie

I've just got a call for help from a partner, about their customer who has decided to move from basic inventory management to full-scale warehouse management system. The question was how to post the opening balances for existing inventory quantities in flat locations to warehouse-managed ones. I thought this might deserve a quick blog post, you can never know when someone else would want to do the same thing.

“Our old software” syndrome

A few days back, while prototyping a new solution for a customer, one of the key users said: "But in our old software it didn't work like that." I was about to try to explain why the change, but then the user's boss said: - We aren't implementing a new solution so that everything can stay the way it was. How often does it happen to you that your customers say to you a similar thing: "But in our old system..."? What do you say to them? How do you approach change when your consultant proposes a new way of doing things, or a new approach to a common problem?
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