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Electronic invoicing feature versions

Electronic invoicing features are versioned. When a new version is created, the version number is automatically incremented.

Electronic invoicing feature versions follow a lifecycle that has up to three statuses:

• Draft – When a feature version has this status, you can edit its configuration attributes and its artifacts (for example, file format configurations).
• Completed – This status indicates that you finished editing the feature version and don't intend to make any more updates to it. When a feature version has this status, you can no longer edit it or any of its components.

You can specify an Effective from date for any new version of an Electronic invoicing feature. In this way, you can define a default version that can be used, or a version that can be overwritten, when the feature is deployed to the service environment.

To change the status of an Electronic invoicing feature version, follow these steps.

1. In the Globalization Studio workspace, select the Electronic invoicing tile.
2. On the left side of the Electronic invoicing features page, select the Electronic invoicing feature.
3. On the Versions tab on the right side of the page, select the version.
4. Select Change status, and then select Complete.
5. In the message box, select Yes to confirm the request.

You can track the status in the Feature version status column on the Versions tab.

Deploy feature versions

You use the Deploy command to deploy a version of an Electronic invoicing feature to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance or Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management environment.

1. On the left side of the Electronic invoicing features page, select the Electronic invoicing feature.
2. On the Versions tab on the right side of the page, select the version to deploy. The selected version must have a status of Completed.
3. Select Deploy, and then select the date when the feature version becomes effective.

Remove feature versions

You can select Cancel deployment to remove a specific version of an Electronic invoicing feature from the service, if it was deployed there. The Deployed to the service column indicates whether a version is deployed to the service.

Rebase Electronic invoicing features

When one Electronic invoicing feature is derived from another, you can select Rebase to update the derived feature with the changes that have been made in the original (parent) feature.

To rebase a derived version of a feature that you created, follow these steps.

1. Get the latest version of the feature by importing it from the Global repository. For more information, see Import features from the repository.
2. In the list of features, select the feature to rebase.
3. On the Versions tab, select New to create a draft version.
4. Select Rebase.
5. In the Rebase dialog box, select the version of the feature to rebase to.
6. Select OK.
7. Review the feature components, and make any changes that are required.
8. Select Change status to complete the rebased feature. When the rebase is completed, you can perform additional actions.

Get a specific version of Electronic invoicing features

When you create a new version of an Electronic invoicing feature, the system creates a copy of the latest feature version. To use an earlier version of the feature as the base for a new version, select the version, and then select Get this version. A new draft version of the feature is created that's a copy of the selected version.