Updating certain entities throws error about not being able to update

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Hello, I am making a program that updates all chosen records from a large pool of entities. Everything works, except for certain entities are giving me an error: System.ServiceModel.FaultException1: the entity cannot be updated. I've tried to look for a property such as "Attribute.IsValidForUpdate" but there doesn't seem to be one for Entities. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Radu Chiribelea 6,667 on at

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Hello,

Could you please provide a list of the entities you are trying to update? (Especially the out of the box ones)

Also, what fields are you trying to update? Make sure you aren't updating any technical fields

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Radu

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PranavShroti 4,510 on at

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Are you sure your logged in current user is having appropriate security roles to update records in those entities ?

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Kalpavruksh D365 CoE 2,545 on at

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Hi,

Please check the user role with which you are trying to update the record. check if the attribute you are trying to update is not a system attribute which cannot be updated. Check if the type casting is done appropriately. Please check the link which talks about deprecated messages: docs.microsoft.com/.../dn932124(v=crm.8)

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Daniel Wikell 2,360 on at

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Hi

"The entity cannot be updated" - you can also see this message if you are trying to update an entity that is in a read only state such as an Invoice or Case that has been closed or a Lead that has been qualified etc.

In this case you want to check the statecode and statuscode attributes and make sure that the entity you are trying to update is not in an inactive state.

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There are many entities throwing this error, but for example. Just now I tried updating a entity and this error was thrown: System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1: 'The 'Update' method does not support entities of type 'applicationfile'.' Is there a way to filter for ALL entities that do not support the 'update' method?

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PranavShroti 4,510 on at

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You may be trying to update an intersect entity directly which is not allowed, or perhaps a child entity without having any parent. please check.

Hope this helps,

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This was indeed the issue. I am still very new to CRM and I didn't realize that some of the out of the box entities such as Case had a statecode I had to check. I was able to Check its State, and if closed I opened it up, made the changes and then closed it again. Thanks for the help!

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