Acumatica Customization Management

Manage Acumatica ERP customization projects via the CustomizationApi web API. Use this skill whenever the user wants to export, import, publish, validate, unpublish, or delete Acumatica customization projects, check publish status, toggle maintenance mode, or automate any customization lifecycle task against an Acumatica instance. Trigger even when the user mentions "Acumatica", "customization project", "publish", "unpublish", or "acumaticahelper".

Acumatica Customization Helper

A bash script (acumaticahelper.sh) that manages Acumatica ERP customization projects through the official CustomizationApi web API.

Script location: acumaticahelper.sh (run from its own directory)

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Configuration

The script reads acumatica.conf from the same directory as the script. Copy acumatica.conf.example to acumatica.conf and fill in your values:

ACUMATICA_URL=http://host/instance    # base URL — no trailing slash
ACUMATICA_USERNAME=admin              # must have the Customizer role
ACUMATICA_PASSWORD=secret

Optional tuning (add to acumatica.conf or export as env vars):

Variable	Default	Description
PUBLISH_POLL_INTERVAL	30	Seconds between publishEnd polls
PUBLISH_MAX_ATTEMPTS	10	Max polls before timeout (10 × 30s = 5 min max)

Note: OAuth 2.0 is NOT supported by the CustomizationApi. Cookie-based session auth is used (/entity/auth/login / /entity/auth/logout).

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Commands

list

List all published customization projects and their items.

./acumaticahelper.sh list

API: POST /CustomizationApi/getPublished

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export

Export a project as a local ZIP file. Validates the zip before saving and auto-resolves file system conflicts.

./acumaticahelper.sh export <project-name> [output-dir]
# output-dir defaults to current directory

API: POST /CustomizationApi/getProject

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import

Import a ZIP file as a customization project. Derives project name from the filename if not specified. Replaces an existing project of the same name.

./acumaticahelper.sh import <file.zip> [project-name] [description]

API: POST /CustomizationApi/import

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validate

Validate one or more projects without publishing them. Polls until complete.

./acumaticahelper.sh validate <project-name> [project-name2 ...]

API: POST /CustomizationApi/publishBegin (with isOnlyValidation: true) then polls POST /CustomizationApi/publishEnd

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publish

Publish one or more projects. Polls until complete.

./acumaticahelper.sh publish <project-name> [project-name2 ...]

Important: publishEnd must be called to complete publication — it triggers plug-in execution. The script handles this automatically.

API: POST /CustomizationApi/publishBegin → polls POST /CustomizationApi/publishEnd

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unpublish

Unpublish all projects. tenantMode controls scope.

./acumaticahelper.sh unpublish [Current|All]
# defaults to Current

API: POST /CustomizationApi/unpublishAll

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delete

Delete an unpublished project from the database.

./acumaticahelper.sh delete <project-name>

Warning: The project must be unpublished first. Deletion removes project and item data but does NOT remove files/objects added to the site (e.g. site map nodes, reports).

API: POST /CustomizationApi/delete

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status

One-shot poll of publishEnd to check the current publish/validation state.

./acumaticahelper.sh status

API: POST /CustomizationApi/publishEnd

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maintenance-on / maintenance-off

Enable or disable maintenance mode (Lock endpoint V1).

./acumaticahelper.sh maintenance-on
./acumaticahelper.sh maintenance-off

API: PUT /entity/Lock/1/ApplyUpdate/scheduleLockoutCommand (on) PUT /entity/Lock/1/ApplyUpdate/stopLockoutCommand (off)

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API Endpoints Reference

Endpoint	Method	Used by
/entity/auth/login	POST	all commands
/entity/auth/logout	POST	all commands
/CustomizationApi/getPublished	POST	list
/CustomizationApi/getProject	POST	export
/CustomizationApi/import	POST	import
/CustomizationApi/publishBegin	POST	validate, publish
/CustomizationApi/publishEnd	POST	validate, publish, status
/CustomizationApi/unpublishAll	POST	unpublish
/CustomizationApi/delete	POST	delete
/entity/Lock/1/ApplyUpdate/scheduleLockoutCommand	PUT	maintenance-on
/entity/Lock/1/ApplyUpdate/stopLockoutCommand	PUT	maintenance-off

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Requirements

• bash 4+
• curl — HTTP requests
• jq — JSON building and parsing
• base64 — encode/decode project ZIPs
• python3 — ZIP validation on export (import zipfile)

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Common Workflows

Backup before an upgrade:

./acumaticahelper.sh export MyProject ./backups

Promote from dev to prod:

# On dev — export
./acumaticahelper.sh export MyProject ./release

# On prod — import then publish
./acumaticahelper.sh import ./release/MyProject.zip
./acumaticahelper.sh publish MyProject

Safe publish with maintenance window:

./acumaticahelper.sh maintenance-on
./acumaticahelper.sh publish MyProject
./acumaticahelper.sh maintenance-off

Clean slate — unpublish everything then delete:

./acumaticahelper.sh unpublish Current
./acumaticahelper.sh delete MyProject