---
title: "Compare data packs"
slug: "compare-data-packs"
description: "Compare configurations in the Life Sciences Cloud Compliance Suite to validate Dynamics 365 setups across legal entities with detailed output files."
updated: 2026-06-25T10:24:09Z
published: 2026-06-25T10:24:09Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/compare-data-packs"
---

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# Compare data packs

Life Sciences Cloud Compliance Suite allows the comparison of configurations exported using the [**Create data pack**](/life-sciences/docs/create-data-pack) feature through the **Compare data packs** feature available in the **Life Sciences Cloud Compliance Suite** module.

The **Compare data packs** feature supports validation users and IT people, providing them with output files that document and validate configurations across different Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management legal entities or environments.

## Steps

To compare configurations, users must:

1. Export the first configuration from a legal entity/environment using the **Create data pack** feature.
2. Export the second configuration from a legal entity/environment using the **Create data pack** feature.
3. Go to **Life Sciences Cloud Compliance Suite > Configuration management > Compare data packs**.
4. Click the Upload button next to the **File 1** and **File 2** fields and upload the two configuration files.
5. Select the output format in the **Target data format** field.
6. Click **OK**.
7. Check the output file.

## Fine-tune comparison process

Users can additionally fine-tune the comparison process by enabling the following fields:

- **Exclude system fields**: The system automatically disregards any system field from the comparison process.
- **Only changes**: The system return only the changes between the compared configurations in the XML output file.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> - The output of the [**Export security**](/life-sciences/docs/export-security) feature is compatible with the **Compare data packs** feature, allowing the possibility to compare security configurations across different Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management instances.
> - Currently, the Compare data pack feature does not work for the following tables:
>   - **BPHStorageConditionLine**
>   - **BPHInventDispositionAccess**
>   - **WMSLocationStatus**

## Compare data packs - Output

**Compare data packs** can generate the comparison output in XML format (**Flat** or **Nested**) or in a human-readable and storable PDF.

#### **Example Flat XML**

```xml

```

#### **Example Nested XML**

```xml

```

## Comparison Configuration Document

The PDF report, called **Comparison Configuration Document**, is an easy-to-understand document that provides information about which tables or fields are different among the two compared configurations. With a user-friendly layout, users can:

- Understand which legal entities/environments are involved in the comparison through hyperlinks to the environments available in the document.
- Understand when and who performed the comparison process.
- Understand which fields differ among the same table in the compared legal entities.
- Understand which are the records that are available in only one of the compared legal entities or environments.
- Understand the overall status of the comparison process.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/da662430-6a41-47b1-8c7e-7e4ac37a9756/Images/Documentation/ccs-compare-data-packs-1.png)

![](https://cdn.document360.io/da662430-6a41-47b1-8c7e-7e4ac37a9756/Images/Documentation/ccs-compare-data-packs-2.png)

![](https://cdn.document360.io/da662430-6a41-47b1-8c7e-7e4ac37a9756/Images/Documentation/ccs-compare-data-packs-3.png)

## Related

- [Data validation checklist](/data-validation-checklist.md)
- [Create data pack](/create-data-pack.md)
- [Configuration evidence report](/configuration-specification-report.md)
- [Configuration management](/configuration-management.md)
- [Life Sciences Cloud Compliance Suite](/life-sciences-cloud-compliance-suite.md)