Data dictionary object is displayed as another type

Meaning you have a table, but something happens (installing a HF, doing an external compilation, etc) and suddenly it is listed as a view, or a map. Or, you have a map and it is showing now as a table. Or any other combination like this. Just got to experience this today on one of my instances.

I got it solved, now, I don't know if all of you agree with going this path, but, as long as you know what you are doing it should be fine.

Basically, I went straight to the model database, and changed the Properties column's value in the ModelElementData table for that particular object with the value I retrieved from a good AX instance (this could be one problem: you must have a second good AX instance, from where to copy that value).

The T-Sql I ran go like this:

use MicrosoftDynamicsAx_model
go

select * from ModelElement me
join ModelElementData med on me.ElementHandle = med.ElementHandle
    where Name = 'AX Corrupted Object Name'
go

 this will give you the information from the model database. Run this on the corrupted instance, as well as on a good one. Basically, your Properties column should be different.

If they are then just do a:

update ModelElementData
set Properties = 0xyourvaluehere
    where ElementHandle = Element'sHandleFromAbove  

Of course, in my case it was only one record that was being returned by the first select (this means I had that objects only in one layer (and of course model), so I did not worry about different properties at different layers' levels). However, if you have more than one record, I believe you have to pay extra attention to what you are updating (but this can still work).