At this time, the only documentation of ModelNodesGeneratorSettings.SetIdPrefix is two support threads:
https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/S19870
https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q535267
Those threads are a very poor way to document it. I suggest you need to make clear:
* All the information in the solution posted on S19870
* That SetIdPrefix needs to be called during program startup and in the initialization of every module that can see the views with the name collision (if this is not done then in those modules your design-time editing and Update Model command are entirely non-functional).
Thanks for your suggestion, Steve. We will consider documenting this API for the future.
As I cleaned up my code, I learned a few things. My last bullet in the original posting is not accurate. To summarize for others dealing with the lack of documentation, when you use SetIdPrefix:
XAF will add the specified prefix to the beginning of the generated view identifiers and action identifiers for this particular class. The string you give to this method replaces the classname portion of the identifiers that XAF normally generates.
This method must be called before the XAF code begins to gather the model information. That means it must be called in the following situations:
Before your XafApplication is set up.
At the initialization of the subclass of ModuleBase for every module that can see the conflicting classes.
Through experimentation, it seems to be sufficient to call SetIdPrefix once in the module that defines the class with a conflicting name. The call should be placed in the constructor of the subclass of ModuleBase, before the call to InitializeComponent().
Thank you for your update, Steve.