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Attribute new_region is a Picklist, but a Lookup type was specified.

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Posted on by Ahmad Saud 790

dear all

on production, i do have a field called "new_region" which is a optionset.

i did some modifications on sandbox and this became a lookup field (on regions entity) instead of a static optionset.

when i did export/import from sandbox to production, import failed with an error "Attribute new_region is a Picklist, but a Lookup type was specified." 


now, i dont understand how the solution expects me not to change such field, and what is the use of export/import if such simple field change can fail a whole import process.

in addition, and even if i think to change it manually (on production) to be lookup field, too many dependencies are there, also i do have many similar changes or even more complex ones, those also will fail and fixing them all manually is almost impossible.!!!

any help please?

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thanks,

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    Ahmad Saud 790 on at

    one thing to add, the new lookup field (region) is referring to a whole new entity that is part of the sandbox and not yet created on production, that is why i am trying to export it/import it to production.

    so even if i want to modify the field type to be a lookup field that is referring to "region" entity, i can't, because the entity "Region" does not exist on production, but exists on sandbox.

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    RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

    Hi Ahmad,

    How did you change the type pf the field? I don't think its even possible. Did you delete it and recreate it with the same name as lookup type? If yes then this is expected cause when you import a solution crm updates the components ( it doesn't delete and recreate) so while updating it, it is looking fo roptionset field.

    It is never a good idea to recreate a field with the same name of different type if it is already deployed to production. This is because you can have many dependencies, custom code written considering the field as optionset but even if you are able to update it with some unsupported method, ant related code, workflows, business rule will fail.

    Hope this helps.

  • Ahmad Saud Profile Picture
    Ahmad Saud 790 on at

    thanks you Ravi, it is true, i did recreate them with the same names,

    now, do you have any suggestion to fix this issue?

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    RaviKashyap 55,410 Moderator on at

    Hi Ahmad,

    Unfortunatly there is no way you can export/ import this with the different type. You can however create new lookup field with different name and then just deploy that field and you lookup entity to production.

    Hope this helps.

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    Ahmad Saud 790 on at

    thanks Ravi

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