Customization Analysis Report (CAR) in D365 Finance and Operations

The Customization Analysis Report (CAR) is a tool that analyzes your customization and extension models and runs a predefined set of best practice rules. The report is one of the requirements of the solution certification process. 

Let’s imagine we have a model. It’s called the MYDEV model.

Normally we would use the following command to generate the Customization Analysis Report (CAR) in a development environment:

K:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory\Bin\xppbp -metadata=K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory -all -model:MYDEV -module:MYDEV 

-car=K:\temp\CAReport.xlsx

If you would like to verify the particular object you can include additional parameters such as Class, Form, or another object type, for example:

K:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory\Bin\xppbp -metadata=K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory -model:MYDEV -module:MYDEV 

-car=K:\temp\CAReport.xlsx Class:WHSDocumentRoutingFormMY_Extension

If your MYDEV model references a binary model (it can be a case when you use third-party or ISV models), then it is required to include the -PackagesRoot parameter, for example:

K:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory\Bin\xppbp 

-packagesroot=K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory 

-metadata=K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory 

-all -model:MYDEV -module:MYDEV -car=K:\temp\CAReport.xlsx