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I am trying to use these entities to create many DMFs in one import : 'DataManagementDefinitionGroupEntity' and 'DataManagementDefinitionGroupDetailEntity'

The theory was to maintain an excel of the DMF jobs required for the project and run an import to generate these DMF data projects when promoting to a new environment.

The problem is that the detail entity does not create a default map for the entity which just results in erroneous mapping on any entity added to the project.

There is a field for sample file path in the detail entity but no way to create this sample file path other than the normal 'add file' path. This renders the entities above useless.

Is there a way to request an azure writeable url for the blob storage account behind the DMF framework and provide this value in the DMF data project creation import?

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Data management entities are worthless?

The question is answered by further testing on my part. There is no way to provide a sample file / generate a mapping for the the entity details. These entities are essentially worthless

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André Arnaud de Cal... 297,207 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Data management entities are worthless?

Hi,

I wonder if you solved your issue already or if you still need help from the community. Can you update us with a status please?

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Data management entities are worthless?

Thanks for the additional details. I'm not sure what other post you are referring to. When I look at your screenshot, there are indeed some mapping issues, but the data entities are custom. Have you verified if this is not a bug in the custom entities? You are talking about an import project, but the screenshot shows it is an export project.

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Hi Andre,

This project has multiple integrations into D365 which are reliant on DMF data projects. It would be helpful to create those integration data projects automation. The entities 'DataManagementDefinitionGroupEntity' and 'DataManagementDefinitionGroupDetailEntity' were proposed in another post on this forum for this task. By creating the data project in the first entity and detailing the new data project with the required entities in the second entity you should be able to create many data projects with one import. However, with no sample file to reference the entities in the data project created through the import are unable to map to the staging table. Because this mapping doesn't exist the created data project is worthless which makes me think the entities used to create it are also worthless without being able to actually map the entity from the import.

This is a screenshot of the project created. The entities are added but when you try to view the mapping details they are empty and turn into an error with the red 'X' of doom.

Does this help? It is hard to follow since you are essentially using a data project to create many data projects and the terminology is the shared.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 297,207 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Data management entities are worthless?

Are you able to provide screenshots or elaborate more? I'm not able to follow what exactly you are doing or trying to achieve.

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