SA Metadata Differences Report overview

System Administrator > Reports > SA Reports > SARD

Function acronym: SARD

Use this report to generate an HTML file that identifies the differences between the system setup records.

Caution: 
Only system administrators should run this report.

Each release of Distribution SX.e includes changes to standard functions. If you customize reports, menus, and error messages in these functions, you must determine if the changes affect your customizations:

  • SA Administrator Options-System-Report Items

  • SA Administrator Options-System-Menu Items

  • SA System Error Message Setup

After an upgrade, run the SA Metadata Differences Report to compare the differences between your current system setup records and these master records in the new version of Distribution SX.e:

  • SASSR report records
  • SASSE error records
  • SASSM or PV-SASSM menu records

The report includes this information:

  • Records that exist in your current database, but not in the master files
  • New reports that do not exist in your database

Use the report to identify this information, and the change your revised reports after the upgrade to avoid any conflicts with Distribution SX.e updates:

  • Instances where you made a change to a report title, range, or option, menu item, or error message
  • Custom or modified reports for your company
  • Changes or additions that were made to reports in the new release of Distribution SX.e

In CloudSuite Distribution, you must export master files from the new version of Distribution SX.e in your test environment before you can compare metadata differences.

See Exporting metadata records in the cloud.

In on-premises Distribution SX.e, you must use these baseline files for the upgrade version to compare differences between your data and the new data.

  • sassr.d
  • sasse.d
  • saasm.d
  • pv-sassm.d

They are located in the \database\metadata folder of the SX.enterprise_Full_Release_x_x_x_x.zip file.

Note:  If you customized a function in on-premises Distribution SX.e, contact the Infor software integration team before you upgrade. They can assist in merging your customized code.