Data entity change name/label

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I created a data entity with the wizard. Everything was fine until I decided to change the label.

Once I changed the label..in the odata area it changed correctly but in dixf it changed to be the class name..not very useful. I built and synced but no luck.

Has anyone had the same issue? Just asking before I start debugging. I'm on U7

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Hi Norbert Spiteri,

AX will use entity name instead of a label if there is already different entity with the same label.

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Hi Ievgen,

Thanks for your help, I understand that part. I'm not sure if it applies in this case. Let me explain:

I created a data entity for External Codes using the wizard.

The wizard set the label as External Code Values so I changed it to External Codes. Now I get External Codes in the oData but XXXExtCodes in the DIXF.

I don't think there is an entity already for External Codes, at least I didn't find one when I looked. It also looks strange that it behaves one way on oData and different on DIXF.

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I have an update on this. After a few hours I checked back in DIXF and now I see the entity twice. One with the name being the label and one with the name being the actual AOT name. Remember: this is just in DIXF - in the oData part it works fine.

I changed the label again, and after a while, I now see three.

The source of that dropdown is DMFUtil::lookupEntity and the source is table DMFEntity

I ran a query on the database:

select * from dmfentity where entitytable like 'EMT%'

and sure enough it gave me 3 rows. So I just deleted the ones I wasn't using.

Perhaps it is something from Microsoft's side that they should fix..if I relabel an entity, it should change it on the DMFEntity table

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There is a button "Refresh entity list" in a Data import/export framework parameters. Did you try it ?

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That would make sense..didn't try it..too late now.

I'll mark your answer as the suggested answer. If it doesn't work for someone they can always use my method

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The data entity refresh also fixed this issue for me but I had to manually delete the existing entity with the old label first in the data entity form. After that the refresh created the entity with the correct label.

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