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Posted on by MDeeb 74

HI Everyone,

I have connected my AX 2012 R3 to Azure devops, and have implemented the build and release, however am moving projects from dev to UAT to Production, but I have to export the project into shared location then import it through devops.

while checking in the project, I can find it in the shared folder files on azure devops, but it seems empty, and when I release it, only the project moves without its elements, that's why I have to export it into shared location and release it with devops,

so my question is how can I check in the project to devops and makesure all its elements are within it so I release it from the checked in location and not from the exported shared file location ?

Thank you on advance.

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  • MDeeb Profile Picture
    MDeeb 74 on at
    RE: Checking in projects into azure devops

    Thanks a lot Martin

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 230,458 Most Valuable Professional on at
    RE: Checking in projects into azure devops

    No, the modelstore is not moved from DEV to the build server. The build server is where models are build based on source code stored in Azure DevOps.

    The usual approach (in my experience) is deploying models to test environments and ultimately to Pre-Live, where a whole modelstore is taken to Live.

  • MDeeb Profile Picture
    MDeeb 74 on at
    RE: Checking in projects into azure devops

    Thank you Martin,

    so please correct me if am wrong, the best practice is to have Dev, Build, UAT, Production environment, once code checked in on dev, the model store is moved to build, and then on build the model is exported, then released to UAT and production. right ?

    Thanks a lot.

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 230,458 Most Valuable Professional on at
    RE: Checking in projects into azure devops

    That's correct - projects contains only links to actual elements stored elsewhere. You could export to .xpo, which would include elements in the project, but it would be a wrong way, because .xpo files are not intended for deployment.

    The best approach is having a build server, which will create a model file based on data in Azure DevOps. If you're unable to set up a build server, export and import a model directly from DEV, but don't forget that it's not without risks. You could export changes that don't exist in version control, which wouldn't happen with build server.

    Also, make sure you read Deploying Customizations Across Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Environments (White paper).

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