Bug fixing for the error ‘The request for path /NAV2018/dev/apps failed with code 422.’

Introduction:

Work around to solve the error ‘The request for path /NAV2018/dev/apps failed with code 422. Reason: The value “1473493” can’t be evaluated into type Date’. This is a bug accepted by Microsoft. Thus this blog demonstrate the workaround to the bug until it gets fixed.

Pre-requisite:

NAV 2018

Demonstration:

1. Converting the text files to AL files from C/AL suing TEXT2AL utility, Thus, InitValue property of the field is set as per the C/AL object but, it throws the following error
2. Workaround to this is either comment out the code and validate the field and add the data.

Conclusion:

This is a bug and the following method is only a quick fix until a new version is released.