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Error Message: Assignee has insufficient privileges

Posted on by Microsoft Employee

I get this error message when I try to merge two Contact records: "Assignee has insufficient privileges. The selected {0} does not have sufficient privileges to be assigned records of this type. For more information, contact your system administrator."

No Log File.

The contacts both have the same Owner, which is a user on which all other merges are working just fine.

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  • Aric Levin Profile Picture
    Aric Levin 30,188 on at
    RE: Error Message: Assignee has insufficient privileges

    Hi,

    When you merge two records, not only does the Contact records get merged, but also the child records. It is possible that the ownership error that you are receiving is due to child errors permissions and not the contact record.

    I would check the privileges that the owner of the record has as well as the person performing the merge action.

    Hope this helps.

  • Hameed Hussain Profile Picture
    Hameed Hussain 250 on at
    RE: Error Message: Assignee has insufficient privileges

    Please refer to my answer here. You might get a clue:

    https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/213589

  • Community Member Profile Picture
    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Error Message: Assignee has insufficient privileges

    Do you know if there are particular child record relationships I should look for? Or why it would fail on this merge and not others?

  • David Jennaway Profile Picture
    David Jennaway 14,063 on at
    RE: Error Message: Assignee has insufficient privileges

    The issue may be with permissions on child entities. If a relationship has cascading ownership, and the child record has a different owner from the contact, then the merge will try and change the child record's owner

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