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Issue after importing solution - Weird intermittent behavior with "Query Builder Error - The specified field does not exist in Microsoft Dynamics 365"

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Hello,

 

I will try to keep this as concise as possible as I have been wracking my brain the entire day trying to figure this out.

 

Problem

 

I have 3 environments, Dev, QA and Prod. I have a solution which contains a collection of entities, a couple of flows and some option sets. I have exported and imported this solution from Dev to QA and Prod a couple of times with no issues. However, today I decided to change a field in Entity A to look up on from Entity B in the same solution instead of the System Users Entity. After doing this, I tested to make sure I could create/edit records in Dev and it worked. Exported/imported into QA and everything worked. Importing into Prod is where the trouble happened. I received this error intermittently:

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A flow I had connected to this entity also had an error stating this:

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The flow error remained constant however the Query Builder error seemed to be intermittent for multiple users. It was really odd that I could create an entry sometimes and other times I could not. Eventually, the error became more and more common until it was consistent.

What I've tried

  • I ensured I removed any remnant of the old field that a replaced with the new lookup field. If it matters, I did name it the same. Note - I have another look up field that I essentially remade during troubleshooting and I named that something different but it is having a similar issue.
  • Used a few XRMtoolbox plugins to see if I could find any reference of the attribute. Nothing showed up having to do with the old fields.
  • I tried updating data using the "edit data in excel" function but that yielded the same result as the flow.
  • I tried removing the Lookup fields from the forms and import/exporting into prod. I noticed that after doing this, one of the option set fields would throw the error shown above so if I left it blank, I could create items. This was intermittent as well. 
    • After seeing this, I tried removing the problematic option set from the solution and reimported. It seemed like this was the most consistent way to create records with no errors. 
  • I tried creating the relationships manually instead of letting CDS do it when you create a field.
  • I've deleted all data in prod just in case previous data from the old fields messed things up.

 

The most bizarre thing to me is everything works perfectly UNTIL I use my prod environment. I also can't understand how it would create records sometimes then the very next record, using the same data, throw an error. I am out of ideas as to how that environment has issues when everything I use is within the same solution.

Apologies for the wall of text here. My head is swimming and I felt like all of that detail may help someone smarter than myself help me. Please let me know if I can provide any further details that may assist.

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  • Ben Thompson Profile Picture
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    First question - are you using managed or unmanaged solutions?
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    Reigningfear Profile Picture
    139 on at

    Hey @Ben , thanks for getting back to me. I accidentally posted this twice. My more updated post is here. I ended up figuring it out and it actually had nothing to do with the solution which was bizarre. It was a duplicate detection job running which was expecting old attributes that I removed. 

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