Layer

Descrition

ID range

USR

User

Individual companies or companies within an Enterprise can use this layer to make customizations unique to customer installations.

50001-60000

CUS

Customer

Companies and business partners can modify their installations and add the generic company-specific modifications to this layer.

The layer is included to support the need for in-house development without jeopardizing modifications made by the business partner.

40001-50000

VAR

Value-added reseller

Business partners use this layer, which has no business restrictions, to add any development done for their customers.

30001-40000

BUS

Business solution

Business partners develop and distribute vertical and horizontal solutions to other partners and customers. Solutions in this layer can be protected with license keys with a signed agreement for the Dynamics AX Add-On Solutions program.

20001-30000

LOS

Local Solution

The Dynamics AX solutions offices certify and distribute strategic local solutions developed in-house.

18001-20000

DIS

Distributor

The Dynamics AX Sustained Engineering team delivers critical hotfixes using the DIS layer

160001-18000

GLS

Global solution

The Dynamics AX Global Development and Localization team provides a set of GLS layers that contain country-specific functionality for regions in which Dynamics AX is released

8001-16000

SYS

System

This is the lowest model element layer and the location of the standard Dynamics AX application. Only Microsoft has access to the element definitions at this layer.

1-8000