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How to identify details of changes for a Solution

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Posted on by jfine 19

I have inherited a CRM system that was, and still is, in the process of adding on a web based application that uses the CRM SDK for calls.

There were customization's needed to CRM to support new features, and a solution was created. This is all done on a copy of production.

However, within this solution there is a major entity included, and while I can see a few fields might have been added, how do I find out exactly what all the details of the solution include?

Because it is unmanaged, there is no way to back out once the solution is imported, so, it would be nice to see exactly what all the diffs are.

Any way to do that?

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    Temmy Wahyu Raharjo Profile Picture
    Temmy Wahyu Raharjo 2,916 on at

    The only way you can do is you have previous unmanaged solution. Then you can compare the xml before and after. That's why the best practice of CRM is always keeping the solutions inside source control. In SDK they also included SolutionPackager which you can have tool to extract per entity the xml and compare it. The easiest way is using source control, you can directly know which components that changed.

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    Kokulan Profile Picture
    Kokulan 18,054 on at

    Hi

    If you want to see a proper diff, you could try the following.

    You could try this tool and see if this helps : github.com/.../XTBPlugin.SystemComparerer

    Or you could manually do the comparison yourself.

    01. Create new unmanaged solution on your production, add the entity in question, add all the components of the entity and export the solution as unmanaged.

    02. Create a new unmanaged solution on your copy of production and add the entity in question with all the components and export the solution as unmanaged.

    Unzip both solutions and compare the two customisation XMLs using a tools like Beyond Compare. This comparison should give the full diff even if the person who customised on copy of production forgot to add any component they changed to the solution.

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    jfine 19 on at

    Hello, yes I figured it would come to that.

    Or, really, when looking at an entity in Customize the system --> Default Solution, it seems if you visually compared the fields, relationships, (and views I suppose), you should be able to figure out changes. We don't use Business Rules, Hierarchy Settings, Charts. Forms would be the tricky one to visually compare though.

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    Joseph McGregor Macdonald Profile Picture
    Joseph McGregor Mac... 597 on at

    Hi there

    You could use the feature I have detailed in this article josephmcmac.wordpress.com/.../dynamics-365-instance-comparison

    Be aware though it doesn't compare everything. For example it won't identify ribbon differences

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