Moving a whole project from USR layer to BUS layer

jdeme
jdeme Member Posts: 12
edited 2008-01-22 in Dynamics AX
Hello everyone and happy new year!

I have a few questions regarding the movement of projects from one layer to another.

The issue is as follows: When we started developing in axapta we took the USR layer so until today we are still developing in that layer. Now comes the issue that all the development we've done should be moved to the BUS layer so that it can be correctly implemented at the customer. The problem is that references between the project items will be lost as when they are moved to the BUS layer they are assigned new IDs (belonging to the layer's range of IDs).

Does anyone have any suggestions as how to resolve this issue? Any ideas will be greately appreciated!

Joanna
jdeme

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  • icelanderwill
    icelanderwill Member Posts: 5
    I just might have an idea:

    1) Stop the AOS and make a backup of your application folder
    2) Change all the corresponding files in the application folder from USR to BUS (aod, index files, etc.)
    3) Delete the axapd.aoi file
    4) Start up the AOS and connect with a client

    Your application object indexes will be rebuilt, but I do not think that IDs will be affected. Also I do not have any information if the layer file contains itself any relation, or only the filename determines it, but it is worth a try.
    If something goes wrong, you can restore the previous state by stopping the AOS and copying the backup to it's original place.

    Please inform me about the results.

    Another note is that you should avoid using fixed IDs, instead of you have functions like tablename2id(), fieldname2id() and the reversed forms too.
  • Harish
    Harish Member Posts: 172
    Hi Icelanderwill,

    I am not sure what you mean in your second point where you say -

    Change all the corresponding files in the application folder from USR to BUS (aod, index files, etc.)

    I hope you did not mean renaming the files physically.

    Joanna -
    One option you can consider is exporting from USR layer and importing them into BUS layer. If you want to retain the IDs, try importing them with this command - "-internal=importexportID" in your config utility. First please test this in your test environment.

    Regards,
    Harish Mohanbabu
    Long way to go before I sleep..

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