I have heard from a few people struggling to duplicate a company in AX 2012. So, I decided to try it out my self. The recommended approach is to use dat/def export and import. There is a good article on technet. Import duplicate company data to use for testing [AX 2012] I have had 1 failed and 1 successful duplicate attempt. I will explain the steps that worked for me. 1. Create your new Legal entity 2. Set up the Ledger form which is a shared table. I selected the same account structures as the company I was copying from. 3. Create a definition group to export the data from main source company. If I didnt want master data such as customers, vendors etc. I would untick Main group. Included shared tables in my export. Now export your dat/def. 4. Now I imported without shared tables. 5. The result is good. Chart of accounts and posting profiles all work fine. Vendors, customers imported fine (note: the vendor uses the same partyId as the source company). Sum...
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