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ovinophile
ovinophile

Reputation: 793

Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Export solution from 2015 to 2013

Is it possible to export a solution from CRM 2015 (7.0) to CRM 2013 (6.1)? Instructions I've found online say there's a step to choose target version in the export wizard but it doesn't appear for me.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 889

Answers (3)

acraigx
acraigx

Reputation: 11

I was able to hack the solution files and successfully imported a 2015 Update 1 solution into 2013. Here were my steps:

Change the first line of solution.xml to the following:

Remove the following from customizations.xml (obviously these reference new features not yet available back in 2013) 0 0 0 1 0 ….. ….. 0 1 0 0 0 1 false 1 0 5.0.0.0 1.0.0.0 1.0 1.0.5.418 Replace

with
Remove IntroducedVersion="5.0.0.0" from SiteMap area

Edit all Workflow XML files Change Version=7.0.0.0 to Version=5.0.0.0

Upvotes: 1

ovinophile
ovinophile

Reputation: 793

Andrii is right, there doesn't seem to be a way to import a 2015 solution into 2013. But at least in my case, I was able get an import to work by unzipping and editing XML files in the exported solution. Perhaps this could help someone else:

In solution.xml I set version="6.1.3.125" and SolutionPackageVersion="6.1" in the initial <ImportExportXml> element.

Then using regex find and replace in Notepad++ I removed the following elements throughout customizations.xml to make the schema match:

  • <SourceType>
  • <CanChangeHierarchicalRelationship>
  • <EntityHelpUrlEnabled>
  • <EntityHelpUrl>
  • <IsHierarchical>

Zipped the files back up and it successfully imported into 2013.

Upvotes: 3

Andrew Butenko
Andrew Butenko

Reputation: 5446

That's not possible. The only way is manual copying of solution.

Upvotes: 3

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