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A validation error occurred. The length of the 'company' attribute of the 'contact' entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of '50'.

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I am working to import contacts and the company name will not import due to this error. Is there a way to resolve this?

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CRMJetty 3,508 on at

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RE: A validation error occurred. The length of the 'company' attribute of the 'contact' entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of '50'.

Hello,

pls refer below article,

https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/microsoft-dynamics-crm-forum/309481/solved-workflow-error-character-limit-in-text-field/896487

https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/microsoft-dynamics-crm-forum/206449/business-process-error/538413

I hope it helps,

Thanks.

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Fubar 2,752 on at

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RE: A validation error occurred. The length of the 'company' attribute of the 'contact' entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of '50'.

I believe you may actually have an incorrect mapping. Phone number fields are 50 long, and there is a Phone number field whose schema name is 'company' and it is trying to import into that field instead of the one you want (which would be the parent.lookup)
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PabloCRP 1,088 on at

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RE: A validation error occurred. The length of the 'company' attribute of the 'contact' entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of '50'.

Hi LMata,

As is been told some records that you are trying to import exceed the max length in company column. I'd like to point you where you can update that max from e.g: 50 to 1000,

Go to Settings

Select arrow down and click on Customizations

Select Customize the system

Expand Entities tab and look for contact, click on that.

Click on fields

Look for company column and click it

locate Maximum Length* field and set a bigger number e.g:50 to 1000

click on save and close

Back in contact, click on publish

Regards.

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LMata 60 on at

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RE: A validation error occurred. The length of the 'company' attribute of the 'contact' entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of '50'.

I don't see where I can do this? Where is this done?
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Yoshika Suzuki on at

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RE: A validation error occurred. The length of the 'company' attribute of the 'contact' entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of '50'.

I think that the event can be avoided by setting the maximum length of the field where the error is occurring to 50 or more.
Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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RE: A validation error occurred. The length of the 'company' attribute of the 'contact' entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of '50'.

Hi,

Could you share some more details about the Company name field is this a lookup or text field? Normally company name is associated with the Account entity but account entity have limit of 160 for the name field )
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Fubar 2,752 on at

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RE: A validation error occurred. The length of the 'company' attribute of the 'contact' entity exceeded the maximum allowed length of '50'.

You are probably attempting to import into the "Company Phone" field (Company in the schema). You can increase the maximum length of the fields definition or import into the appropriate column most likely ParentCustomerId ("Customer name") - note the latter is a lookup and so won't just take a plain text value the target record must already exist in the system.