Convert managed Entity into Unmanaged.

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How to convert a managed Entity into an unmanaged one in MS CRM 2013?

I have an unused entity which was created by mistake in Organisation Scope level which was moved from source to target by mistake . We have this unused entity in a managed form in target . Is there any possible way to delete this managed entity ?

Is it possible to convert managed into unmanaged in Target so as to enable removal .

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RE: Convert managed Entity into Unmanaged.

If you have a managed entity on your destination organization and it's not on the source environment, or it's a different type, you're going to have problems rolling out. I've had to deal with this in the past where we have a Dev environment and a testing environment.

What I've done in the past is to delete the entity from Dev, then create a new solution on Testing, include just the problem entity, and bring that solution down to dev, then include the entity in your standard dev solution. Now both entities will be matching and you'll be able to roll out without a problem.

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Aiden
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RE: Convert managed Entity into Unmanaged.

Hi Aideen , Thanks . We have been restricting this entity in security model as you have said , But the real problem is we have two versions of this unused entity with same schema name in two different scopes - User and Organisation with Organisation being created first and deleted and then again created with user scope , but the former one got by mistake deployed into Target even before it was deleted in source . So we need to delete the one in Target so as to send this new one . We dont have any database access for this target.
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RE: Convert managed Entity into Unmanaged.

Hi,

You can't convert a managed entity to unmanaged, at least not in a supported way. I have been able to do this before with managed attributes hitting SQL directly but it's always risky and should be a last resort. If you want to banish the entity, your safest bet is to update your user's security roles so they don't have access to it - this will hide it from all navigation and advanced find views. The system admin will still see it, but if you change the display label to start with "z" or an underscore maybe, you'll move it to the bottom of the advanced find view and it'll be most out of the way.

Hope this helps! I'd appreciate if you'd mark this as Answering your question.

Thanks,

Aiden