Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

Hi,

In one of my CRM 2011 deployments when I tried to import my solution from Development to Test environment I got below error

Fields that are not valid were specified for the entity

After examining the customization changes made we came to know the actual problem.

Reason –

• We had an attribute ‘new_abc’ that was of type “Two Options”
• Later  we got a change request from client, that the field has to be an option set.
• So in Development environment, we deleted the field  ‘new_abc’ of type “Two options” and created a new field again with same name ‘new_abc’ of type “Option set”.
• When we tried to import back the new solution to test environment we got this Import failure message.

Fix :-

• We fixed this by deleting the field in the import environment (i.e., Test environment in my case) prior to the import of new solution.
• To avoid this problem provide different name to the newly created field

Hope it helps 🙂