How to view the Object Details of Business Central Extensions without using VS Code

 “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany 

Sometimes, It’s takes a while to get the list of objects used in an Extension by going through VS Code and checking the projects. I felt there should be some way to know the each extension’s objects even to avoid the collision of new extension’s object range defining process and that’s where end up in going through the below approach.

• Let’s go to the Extension Management in Business central
• Click on the Question Mark (?) symbol on the top right corner of the page.

• Click on the ‘Inspect Pages and Data’

• Now the Page Inspection information appears over the page. Click on any one of the extension available and then you will be able to retrieve the Table field details of the table ‘NAV App’.
• The Shortcut key to generate the Page Inspection from any page: Ctrl+Alt+F1.

• As you can see from the above image that the Table field details of the Extension, we can have a quick glance and let’s copy the ‘Package ID’ of the extension.

• In order to view the Object details of the extension, we are going to filter ‘App Package ID’ in the page or table of the ‘All Object with Caption’.

Object Details Links

Table

http://localhost:8080/BC150/?table=2000000058 

Page

 http://localhost:8080/BC150/?page=9174 

Page with Filter

Filter 1:
http://localhost:8080/BC150/?page=9174&filter=AllObjWithCaption.'Object ID' IS '50110'

Filter 2:
http://localhost:8080/BC150/?page=9174&filter=AllObjWithCaption.'App Package ID' IS '27d5d53e-743f-4564-b630-cced901c378d'

Note: The Table ‘NAV App’ is one of the system table. It’s data cannot be viewed even through the method of viewing the Table data as per the following Microsoft’s link but still we are able to have a quick access of its data through the Page Inspection.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-view-table-data#constraints

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-view-table-data

Hope you find it useful.

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