Create customization project by Compare layers in dynamics ax

Compare layer functionality is used to create a project of your customized nodes on the basis of layers.

Whenever you do customization you can see your customize nodes in AOT but what if you need to export your customization then you have to search all your customization from AOT and create a separate project, it will be very complicated and time consuming task.

To save your time and effort you can use Compare layer, it creates a project of all the customization you have done.

Let see how you can do that
Go to Menu > Tools > Development tools > Code upgrade > Compare layers and you will see a form for compare layer.

• In this form enter the project name for your project let’s say Test _Proj.
• In Source layer enter the layer in which you done the customization let’s say usr layer.
• In Reference layer enter the layer from which you want to compare the customization let’s say sys layer.
• The last option “Only include element present in both the layers” is for creating the project which will include the elements present in both layers and it will not take any new customized element so for now we will not check this box.

This will create Project “Test_proj” in Private folder of projects window.

You can double click Test_proj to see the all the customized elements node wise and if you want to share this project to other developer then just drag this project and drop it to shared folder in project window.
You can open project window from toolbar or you can Press Ctrl + shift + P to open it.

Thanks.