Hello,
Our previous controller quit and he made a large number of customizations to tables and pages in D365 BC.
I am the new controller, and when I open up pages with Simple Object Designer, the customizations do not show. Can you tell me what’s going on here?
They might have been created in another environment, like a sandbox. Did the controller leave the .app files he created?
And you have checked all your sandboxes for SOD installed?
Then you might be in the unlucky situation, where the Simple Object Designer source code is gone. There are two ways to locate it:
1. Find the .app file that was last published to your production environment. That can be imported into SOD using the “Import App” on the Setup page
2. If the controller used the “Export App” function, then you might be able to find that, the file extension is .json.
You can download the AL source from Extension Management, but that’s only the AL source code, not importable into Simple Object Designer. But it can be used by an AL developer with Visual Studio Code. You might be able to recreate your SOD manually, by studying the source code and recreating all the content. (If you go down that path, there’s a few tricks we need to help you with on support@hougaard.com)
There was a gap of 3 months between when I started and he left. We are unable to contact him, and I have been unable to find a .app file in his old documents.