How to determine if there are any customization in my installation?

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As a partner or customer there comes a time that you may want to know if there are any changes done to Screens , Windows etc. , so you can find the best course of action during an upgrade or patch installation, or even simpler than that, maybe you are going to run a folder validation and you are worried that there might be changes done without protecting with an activity code. 


Typically, you hope that the right process was followed, and any changes was protected with a custom activity code, and all you need to do is to run a search on that activity code, and you will find all the changes. But, that is not the case sometimes.

So in order to help with the above, a utility was released on U9 and higher, called consistency controls for addons, vertical, specifics(ACTLSPE) and below is how you run this utility.

For more information review online help and search for ACTLSPE.




  1. Switch to X3 folder.
  2. Open Development, Utilities, Miscellaneous, Run processes.
  3. Enter ACTLSPE in the script field and press Ok.



  4. On the screen that opens up, select your folder and keep X3 as the parent folder, and check mark impacted elements check box.

  5. Click Ok and wait until the process finishes and log results displays.
  6. Below is an example of the log output and how this tool can help you save time and effort.



  7.  What is shown in the log is that in this specific installation, on SOH0 screen reference field has been changed from standard to have a larger length and a custom field was added, and it was not protected with an activity code.

As you saw in the above, you can use ACTLSPE, and check for changes that might have been done.

Just as a reminder, you could also use object difference analyzer function to check the differences between X3 folder and Child folder.

For example, following below steps, you can see that SOH0 is different between X3 folder and child folder.

  1. Switch to X3 folder.
  2. Open Development, Utilities, Dictionary , Difference analyzer, Objects.
  3. Enter your folder as the destination folder.
  4. Check mark Screens and enter SOH0 for the from and to field and click OK.



  5. On the result log you will see below.



  6. As you can see again it detected that there is a custom field that does not exist in X3 folder, and also the reference field has been modified.

Conclusion: You can use ACTLSPE or Object difference analyzer to determine if there are modifications in your installation.