DeveloperDocumentation field on tables

August 10, 2012 at 14:10
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Hi all!

Tables contain many properties, one of which is the DeveloperDocumentation field. This field describes the purpose of the table, most of the time in the following format: “The [name of table] table contains [what the table contains]”.

When you don’t specify the developer documentation by creating a label, you will get the following best practice error:

Mandatory property DeveloperDocumentation not specified.

When you do create a label, you will get the following best practice warning:

DeveloperDocumentation label should not be marked to be translated.

Wait what?
The solution is to add {locked} in the description of the label using the label editor.
The developer documentation is aimed at developers and should not be translated, so create the label using the same value as the en-us label in all languages.

— This blog post is mostly a reminder to myself, I tend to forget this :)

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  1. Tom Van Dyck

    on January 27, 2015 at 16:03

    looked it up once again, using your website as my online help :-)

  2. Tom Van Dyck

    on April 21, 2015 at 17:30

    and again …

  3. Klaas Deforche

    on July 24, 2015 at 15:27

    Yeah me too Tom :-)

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