Thursday, 18 April 2019

Cross reference alternative D365 FO

FindStr


Today we are going to look interesting stuff, which can be very handy for the developers. This is nothing but, FindStr windows command, which searches for the patterns of text in files.


As everyone is aware of the thing that, in D365FO all the objects i.e. Tables, forms, classes, etc are stored as files (XML's). So it makes sense that, we use can use the Windows command to find the files. 

Now we will see how we can use the FindStr command. 

1. Open command prompt (as administrator)
2. Change to Package directory (CD ) Ex: C: cd K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\XXXModel\XXXModel
3.  FindStr /S /L /I  /C:"serachText"*.xml

it will give you the result similar to cross-reference 

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