Problem / Symptom: AX2012 XPO files are not generally compatible with AX 2009. Description: When porting an XPO created in AX2012 back into AX2009 one is unable to do a compare against various types of object such as forms, classes, tables etc…

Solution: NOTE 1: This solution is to aid you to back port basic code and tables but shouldn’t be regarded as a production ready solution. There is certain functionality that simply cannot be back ported such as event subscriptions etc…

NOTE 2: This is a solution in progress, please let me know if you find any additional changes that one needs to make in order to back port various other AOT XPOs.

Its not often that one needs to port code from a newer system into an older system, but sometimes the occasion does arise as it did for me this week. We have some new functionality in our AX2012 products that we really wanted to port back to AX2009 and a manual compare with both systems open is not really an option and doesn’t actually work for most objects.

The critical areas for us to be able to port back are the tables, classes and forms, all three don’t work. When selecting an element in the AX2009 XPO import form and clicking import, nothing happens. NOTHING, no error messages etc.. I started comparing an AX2012 XPO with an AX2009 XPO in notepad and found the following small changes that one can make to the AX2012 XPO in order at least initiate the compare form for an import into AX2009.

1. Tables For tables the following needs to be modified. Edit your XPO in notepad and

1.1 – Delete EnforceFKRelation 0 Line
1.2 – Delete FULLTEXTINDICES…ENDFULLTEXTINDICES Section
1.3 – Delete the Methods start and end element if you have no methods on the table.

2. Classes: In your XPO
2.1 Delete references to Event Subscriptions
2.2 Add the following line right after the METHODS line in the class node:

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