Customization Analysis Report (CAR) in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

Customization Analysis Report (CAR) in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

Wondering to how to validate your extension model with best practice rules in a report format which provides suggestions for fixing errors and warnings ?

Look no further and use CAR

The report can be obtained from a Dev box using command

xppbp.exe -metadata=<local packages folder> -all -model=<ModelName> -xmlLog=C:\BPCheckLogcd.xml -module=<PackageName> -car=<reportlocation>

Tips: specify packagesRoot parameter e.g. for on premise

-packagesRoot=C:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\Bin

e.g.

C:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory\Bin>xppbp.exe -metadata=C:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory -all -model="extensionrahul" -packagesRoot=C:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory  -xmlLog=C:\temp\BPCheckLogcd.xml -module="extensionrahul" -car=c:\temp\CAReportRahul.xlsx

Reference https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/dev-tools/customization-analysis-report