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"New" in AL Object Designer in Visual Studio Code

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Online documentation is not explaining things well.  

I'm trying to learn Microsoft Application Language (AL) code from a book.  A page from the book is falling short of explaining specifically where I can find a "New" button.

In this book, I'm told the following:

In Object Designer, select the Report object type and click the New button.

I can get to Object Designer, but I cannot find this phantom "New" button.

Sigh.....pictures sure would be nice.  As they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words".

Where in the world is this "New" button?

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    john.ellis Profile Picture
    3,528 on at

    I found this button on my own, but in a roundabout way.  Wow!  This was tough!

    Below is the, well, picture that I just took for future reference:

    pastedimage1635020898854v1.png

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    100,212 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi, the method you found is to use an external VS Extension, if you only install AL Language, you can't do that.

    Actually it's very simple, 

    Click New File

    pastedimage1635120464650v1.png

    Name the file, ending with .al

    pastedimage1635120482147v2.png

    You can create a new Object in it

    pastedimage1635120521663v3.png

    Hope this will help.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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