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Posted on by Jeroen J

Hi,
Today needed to delete a custom attribute, a field on the Account entity. So I started to remove it from processes and forms and when that was ready, I tried to delete it. As my subject line already revealed, I got the "The Attribute(bladibladiguid) component cannot be deleted because it is referenced by 1 other components. For a list of referenced components, use the RetrieveDependenciesForDeleteRequest." message.

When clicking on the Details in the error message, it showed me that the attribute is still on the standard form. Well, it isn't! If I open up the form, the attribute is listed on the right as unused.

I added it again, deleted it, iis reset (hey, maybe it's cached?), but no change whatsoever.

Any thoughts on this?

thanks,
Jeroen

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Abdul Wahab 12,119 Moderator on at

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Hi Jeroen,

What is the type of your your attribute?

Thanks

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Abdul Wahab

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Jomy Jose 290 on at

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Have you used the field for any JavaScript function on same field change in form ?, also check for BPF and Business rules

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Jeroen J 12 on at

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Hi, it's type 2, attribute/field.

The field was created, added to the form, removed and (tried) to delete. No scripting, no BPF or business rules unfortunately.

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Emily Zhang Microsoft Employee on at

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1. Export a solution including that form

2. unzip the solution.zip file, there should be a customization.xml

3.open customization.xml> navigate to the formxml tag of that form

4. search the attribute name, it should show up somewhere.

5. Remove that from customization.xml

6. zip the solution again and import into org.

7. try to delete that attribute again

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Jeroen J 12 on at

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Hi Emily,

Thanks for a great suggestion. I immediately got to it. Unfortunately, the attribute isn't in the xml.

(getting weird, huh?)

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Jeroen J 12 on at

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I'm on premise, so tried

exec p_RetrieveDependenciesForDelete 'e0dcd1a2-e959-4616-8e17-e3a051f788ee',2

which gave me dependency with a 47 type (attributemap), but that's all I can come up with. Is there a way to delete/undock an attributemap?

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Bipin D365 28,983 Moderator on at

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Hi,

I would suggest you to got to Entity-> FIelds -> Select field and click more option-> Show dependencies

you should able to see list of components which are dependant and the field can not be deleted until and unless you remove field from those components.

Can you please follow the process which i mentioned and send screenshot of dependency dialog to investigate further.

Please mark my answer verified if I were helpful!

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