Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Deploying NEW Dynamics AX's Custom Data Entities from DEV to TEST instance

G'day everyone,

Talking here about an excellent feature of AX7, the Data Entities.

When we build the data entities in DEV environment and wanted to test if it is working, we just setup the respective object as StartUp object in Visual Studio, enable database synchronization upon build and hit Start to initiate the build and do a quick test.  In the Data management workspace, during import or export, you will get to see your custom data entities listed for selection, and the custom data entities would be available in the Data Entities page too.  No additional configuration or setup is required.

Now, you want to build, create package and deploy the same into the TEST environment.  But, after the deployment, you would not get to see your custom entities listed in the data management import/export neither in Data Entities page.  But the underlying schema would get deployed.  You will need to manually configure the Custom Data Entities at the Entities page first before you use your Data Packages for Import/Export.  You can also think of using Data Connector App to do this quickly.

Cheers!

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