Purpose of manifest and Packageheader in data download package

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Posted on by Venkatdax0

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Hi Team,

Could you please help me in understanding the purpose of Manifest and Packageheader xml files which will get created when we download the package from the Export Job in DIXF.

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Venky

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Martin Dráb 237,892 Most Valuable Professional on at

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They contain information about entities including in the package (there may be more than one) and everything needed to create an import job (sequence, mapping). Then you can simply import the package instead of setting up everything up front by yourself.

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Sukrut Parab 71,710 Moderator on at

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PackageHeader contains information about definition group and manifest contains information (metadata mapping,entity sequence,entity name etc) for entities

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Any documentation on this?

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nmaenpaa 101,160 Moderator on at

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The package is described for example here: docs.microsoft.com/.../process-data-packages-lcs-solutions

A data package for a Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations app can consist of one or many data entities. A typical data package consists of a group of entities for a specific task, process, or function. For example, the data entities that are required for general ledger setup might be part of one data package. The format of a data package is a compressed file that contains a package manifest, a package header, and any additional files for the data entities that are included.

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