A reference to Dynamics.Ax.ProcessAutomation is required to compile this module

Hello Everyone,

For our customer, we recently upgraded to version 10.0.40.

Version validation for business scenarios, integrations, and reporting went smoothly in the T-2 and PROD environments.

However, when attempting to upgrade the T-1 Development and Build environments, we encountered the following build error.

Issue :

The deployment of version 10.0.40 was successfully completed through LCS. However, when attempting to build the custom model, an error occurred: "A reference to Dynamics.Ax.ProcessAutomation, version = 0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null is required to compile this module."

Resolution :

When I checked our custom model for referenced models, I did not find the ProcessAutomation model.

After including the ProcessAutomation model, the build was successful.

Therefore, if you have not already referenced this model, you may encounter these issues.

Conclusion :

Include a reference to the ProcessAutomation model in your custom model to resolve the roadblock.

Mean while i was trying to explore what is Process Automation Framework and found below interesting information.

The process automation framework is a set of APIs that allows implement process automation processes.

Process automation is based on a system-critical batch job called poller that runs every minute and invokes various subsystems of the process automation framework.

Please read the below interesting blog written by Francisco Zanon on Process Automation.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/process-automation-framework-francisco-zanon/

Thanks for reading.

Happy Learning :)