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Where are customizations stored

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Dear All,

If i did any modification/create a nnew Table, Class, View, Query and Form. Where it will get stored in database?

Please give me more shed on this.

Thanks!

Arpan Sen

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
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    RE: Table, Class, View, Query and Form customization where stored in database

    They're not stored any database; they're in XML files on disk. If you can look at properties of an element in solution explorer, you can see the location in the property called (Full Path).

  • @rp@n Profile Picture
    30 on at
    RE: Where are customizations stored

    Thanks Martin,

    1. In different thread Denis said in Dynamics 365 we have database "AXDB".
        AXDB stored Data (Transactions, Master data etc.) and

    2. The application code is stored in the File System. So, here file system is XML files right?

    Could you please give me more shed on this.

    Thanks!

    Arpan Sen

  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    236,394 Most Valuable Professional on at
    RE: Where are customizations stored

    Correct.

    File system is a system for storing files, including XML files.

  • @rp@n Profile Picture
    30 on at
    RE: Where are customizations stored

    But you said it's not stored in any database. Stored in disk as XML files.

    So, i confused.

    Please clarify me on this.

    Thanks!

    Arpan Sen

  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    236,394 Most Valuable Professional on at
    RE: Where are customizations stored

    Code and metadata (including your customizations) are stored in XML files. They used to be stored in the modelstore database as in AX 2012 or in .aod files as in older versions.

    Data such as users and orders is stored in database, exactly as in all previous versions of AX.

    You can see that the separation is the same as always.

  • @rp@n Profile Picture
    30 on at
    RE: Where are customizations stored

    Thanks Martin,

    Means Tables  are stored in AXDB

    Customization in Form, Class, Query, View are stored in XML files right?

    Thanks!

    Arpan Sen

  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
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    RE: Where are customizations stored

    Definitions of all objects, including tables and views, are stored in the application files, i.e. in those XML files (compiled to DLLs).

    When you synchronize DB with the application, it creates some DB objects corresponding to your application. That's not the same as "storing customizations"; it just mean that your changes have impact on quite a few things, including the database schema.

    Again, this separation and DB synchronization is nothing new in AX 7; it's the same in all other versions.

  • @rp@n Profile Picture
    30 on at
    RE: Where are customizations stored

    Thanks Martin

    Means definitions of table,view,query along with form and class customization are stored in XML files.

    And Transactional data,master data are stored in AXDB.

    Is't correct?

    Thanks!

    Arpan Sen

  • @rp@n Profile Picture
    30 on at
    RE: Where are customizations stored

    Can you please verify. Is't correct?

    Arpan

  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    236,394 Most Valuable Professional on at
    RE: Where are customizations stored

    I don't understand either why you I should repeat what I told you in my previous reply, or why you suddenly re-open this thread from the last year.

    If there is something in my previous answer you don't understand, tell us what it is. Asking me to confirm that I still believe what I said makes little sense.

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