Is there any way to automate the extract of report definitions from Management Reporter?
i.e. I found the following post explaining how to do this manually / it seems fairly straight forward & not too painful (especially as you can "select all" when selecting which building blocks to export): https://community.dynamics.com/ax/f/33/p/183571/457268#457268
...But as MR reports are written by analysts and super users rather than developers, I'm expecting reports to appear intermittently, with no consideration for source control / good SDLC practice.
Since I like all code to be tracked (to some degree at least), I'm hoping to have a nightly extract of all building blocks which can then be checked into source control; (i.e. with VSTS), with source control determining what's changed (if anything) and saving the related changes as a change set; that way if anything goes wrong I can easily find out exactly what's changed when in investigating those issues.
I'm ideally hoping there's a PowerShell library with some soft of `Export-MRBuildingBlock` cmdlet; but any suggestions would be good.
I'm not keen on using database backups for this purpose; since whilst the DB backups allow us to recover the definitions to any date, they're not human-readable; so it would be hard to tell what's changed when without restoring each in turn and then manually hunting through the definitions in MR.
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