Text Constants

The Text Constants window finds the text constant (TextConst) declarations whose text matches a pattern. Use it to get from a message a user saw to the code that shows it.

Opening Text Constants

Choose Search › Text Constants by Content… in the Workspace window.
In Universal Search, type >text constants and press Enter.

The Text Constants window

Prism for C/AL Text Constants window with results for an error message pattern — Text constants that match part of an error message.

#	Name	Description
1	Search box	The pattern to find; see Pattern syntax. Press `Enter` to search.
2	Search	Starts the search.
3	All objects	Searches every object in the store.
4	Currently filtered objects	Searches the objects the object index shows.
5	Count	The number of text constants found.
6	Copy Results to Clipboard	Copies the results as tab-separated text with the columns `Object` and `Name`.
7	Collapse all	Collapses every node.
8	Expand all	Expands every node.
9	Results	Objects and, under each, the matching text constants. The object of the top row stays pinned while you scroll. Select a constant, or double-click it, to go to its declaration in the workspace window.

Pattern syntax

Text	Matches
`*`	Any run of characters, including none.
`?`	Any single character.
Anything else	Itself, ignoring case.

The pattern matches anywhere in each language value of a constant. The language prefix, such as ENU=, is not part of the value, so a pattern in any language the constant holds finds it.

Find the code behind an error message

Use this when a user reports an error message and you need the code that raises it.

Choose Search › Text Constants by Content….
Type the fixed words of the message, with * where it shows values. The constant holds placeholders such as %1 where the message shows values. For example, for "You cannot create this type of document when Vendor 12345 is blocked with type Payment", type you cannot*this type of document when *is*.
Press Enter and select the constant in the results to go to its declaration.
Right-click the constant in the object view and choose Find Usages to list the code that uses it.

A message that is not in a text constant, such as one written straight into an ERROR call, is found with Find a message written into code.

Behavior

Window title: Search Text Constant Contents after the product name, also shown as the window's heading.
No cancel: a search runs to the end; the window has no Cancel button.
Background task: the search also shows among the workspace window's background tasks.