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Posted on by Martín Flores

Hi all!

I'm in small development team and so far (from 2009 to 2012 R3) we've been working in a single server.

I understand that on AX 7 this is no longer a possibility, which leads me to the question.

There is a way to share data between developers? How do you handle this?

Just to clarify, this scenario is the first that comes to mind.

Let say that a developer makes a feature that involves new configuration to the invoicing process. How do you pass this configuration among other developers so they don't have to setup the invoicing process again.

I'm not quite familiar with TFS or VSTS so maybe theres something to do this?

Thanks!

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André Arnaud de Cal... 301,020 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Martin,

You can find dome information about the use of Visual Studio Online with AX on the help pages: ax.help.dynamics.com

This will help you distributing object changes.

For data setup or configurations you can use data packages with help of data import export. This is separate from VSO.

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Hi Martin Flores,

We usually use backup and restore of DB to transfer massive data changes between dev environments.

However you can use data entities to transfer data or simply ask functional consultant to do a setup for you :)

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Hi André and Ievgen, thank for your answers!

I'm afraid asking a functional consultant won't be an option, they don't like to repeat their work :P

Iegven, regarding the backup/restore option and consdering that now AX is hosted on Azure, how big is the impact on your azure credits?

I looked up "Data entities and packages framework" that suggested André and I believe that we are going to take that path. I'm not quite convinced yet, it looks a lot to DIXF and we don't have the best experiences with it.

Thank you both!

Kind regards

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DMF or Excel import using oData is a good way to go however sometimes you will have to build entities because not all of them exists out of them box, especially for custom tables\fields. So backup restore couldbe cheaper option comparing to time you will spend building and testing new entities.

Also you dont have access to Sql in prod and sandbox so restore is only option for dev.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 301,020 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Martin,

If you are using local VMs or development, you are using a local database and can connect to VSO to check out and check in objects. In that way it has no cost effect for your Azure credits.

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