Learn Prism for AL

Prism for AL lets you browse, search and analyze the AL code of a Business Central solution: your own apps, Base Application and every app they depend on. This manual shows you how to install it, open a workspace and use every window it has.

New to Prism for AL? Start with the Getting started tutorial. To look up a window, a setting or a command, go to the Reference manual.

Getting started

A fifteen-minute tutorial: install Prism for AL, request and activate a trial license, open your AL project, and find where a Base Application field is used.

Start the tutorial

Installation

Install Prism for AL on Windows 11, Windows 10 or Windows Server: the standard and compat packages, the icon font, and the anti-virus exclusion for the package cache.

Read installation

Videos

Watch Prism for AL videos, including an introduction to the code graph and an explanation of how it works.

Watch the videos

Using Prism for AL

Tips for Prism for AL: tooltips and context menus, window dividers, search syntax with wildcards and number ranges, shortcuts, copying and expanders.

Read using Prism for AL

Reference manual

Reference for every Prism for AL window, page and panel, from the main and workspace windows to the search, flow and usages windows, plus troubleshooting.

Read the reference manual