Salesforce validation errors
In this section we use our technical knowledge and expertise of dealing with various Salesforce validation errors, and present you with as detailed as possible guidelines on how to resolve them. Sometimes, we may only be aware of functional workarounds. Please note that because validation errors are reported directly by Salesforce, Gearset support may not be able to help you resolve all of them!
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- How does Gearset handle requests that exceed the download limit?
- Resolving validation errors - "The translation for the '[flow]' flow references the [element], which isn't available in the flow"
- Resolving validation errors - "A Recipe must specify a Dataflow" on WaveRecipe metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "An approval process can't be active until it has at least one approval step"
- Resolving validation errors - "Cannot change which global value set this picklist uses"
- Resolving validation errors - "Cannot find a user that matches any of the following usernames: <xxx>; remove the user from the component being deployed or create a matching user in the destination organization."
- Resolving validation errors - "Cannot modify managed object" on PermissionSet metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "Cannot set sharingModel to ControlledByParent on a CustomObject without a MasterDetail relationship field"
- Resolving validation errors - "Cannot specify a gender for a gender neutral language"
- Resolving validation errors - "Cannot specify: inlineHelpText for platform event field"
- Resolving validation errors - "Cannot use field:WhatId in RelatedContent section." on Layout metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "Component names can only contain alphanumeric characters, hyphens, colons, and underscores. Correct label in <xxx>.json and try again."
- Resolving validation errors - "Component [force:highlightsPanel] attribute [actionNames]: We couldn't validate Custom Action <xxx>" on FlexiPage metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "ControlledByParent is not a valid sharing model for Asset" on Custom object metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "Control field value <xxx> not found, valid values are <yyy>"
- Resolving validation errors - "Couldn't locate layout section: <xxx> in layout <yyy>"
- Resolving validation errors - "CustomApplication - You specified one or more duplicate ProfileActionOverride values."
- Resolving validation errors - "Custom metadata type "XXX_mdt" is not available in this organization"
- Resolving validation errors - "Duplicate label <xxx>" for deployment with Global Value Set metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "Picklist value: <xxx> in picklist: <yyy> not found."
- Resolving validation errors - "Entity cannot be untracked." on various standard objects
- Resolving validation errors - "Entity is null or entity element's name is null"
- Resolving validation errors - "EntityObject can not be initialized with null EntityInfo"
- Resolving validation errors - "Error parsing file: Element {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}dayOfMonthToRun invalid at this location in type FlowSchedule" on Flows
- Resolving validation errors - "Error parsing file: ' ' is not a valid value for the enum 'Gender'"
- Resolving validation errors - “Failed to encode <xxx>, Error retrieving UiFormatSpecificationSet ID”
- Resolving validation errors - "Failure DestructiveChanges.xml"
- Resolving validation errors - "Fields in highlights panel must be a subset of fields in detail section" on Layout metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "field integrity exception: unknown - (<xxx> Access level below organization default)"
- Resolving validation errors - "Field: field, value <xxx> appears more than once"
- Resolving validation errors - "Flow Action Error: The value in <actionName> is either missing or contains multiple fields" on Send Email actions
- Resolving validation errors – "In field: application - no CustomApplication named standard__SalesCloudMobile found"
- Resolving validation errors – "In field: application - no CustomApplication named standard__XXXX found"
- Resolving validation errors - "In field: excludeButtons, no such standard action:CreateSalesSummaries"
- Resolving validation errors - "In field: QuickAction - no QuickAction named <xxx> found"
- Resolving validation errors - "In field: field - no <metadata_type> named <xxx> found"
- Resolving validation errors - "In field: report - no Report named <xxx> found" on Dashboard metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "insufficient access rights on cross-reference id: <xxx>"
- Resolving validation errors - "invalid cross reference id" for Custom application metadata
- Resolving validation errors - "Invalid data type" on Custom Address field
- Resolving validation errors - "Invalid element reference <xxx> not found for target"
- Resolving validation errors - "Invalid field name <xxx>" on Report metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "Invalid field: SOLUTION.ISSUE in related list: RelatedSolutionList" on Layout metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "Invalid field <xxx> in related list:RelatedAccountContactRelationList"
- Resolving validation errors - "Invalid property <xxx> in component <yyy>"
- Resolving validation errors - "Invalid condition logic: The filter logic references an undefined filter: <x>" on Flow metadata
- Resolving validation errors - "Invalid target dialog reference <xxx>"
- Resolving validation errors - "Invalid version number <x>" on FlowDefinition metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "INVALID_TYPE: Cannot use: WorkflowRule in this organization"
- Resolving validation errors - LIMIT_EXCEEDED: Try deploying again. Your deployment exceeded its maximum retry limit"
- Resolving validation errors - "miniLayoutField: <field> is not present in the full layout" on Layout metadata
- Resolving validation errors - "Must Specify a Non-Empty Label for the Custom Object"
- Resolving validation errors - "Name (Screen Component) inputsOnNextNavToAssocScrn isn't supported for field Type "InputField""
- Resolving validation errors - "No more than 10 columns may be specified in lookupPhoneDialogsAdditionalFields"
- Resolving validation errors - "Not available for deploy for this API version" on GenAiPlanner metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "Not available for deploy for this organization"
- Resolving validation errors - "One of the objects selected for your roll-up summary uses dated exchange rates and the other object does not. Roll-up summary fields can only summarize values of currency fields if both objects convert values (...)"
- Resolving validation errors - Once an approval process has been activated, you cannot add or remove steps. Please create a new approval process from this one for modification. You may only delete an approval process that has no data records associated..."
- Resolving validation errors - "Permission <xxx> depends on permission(s): <yyy>"
- Resolving validation errors - "QuickText is not a valid Tab" on Profile metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "RecordType (Screen Component) - inputsOnNextNavToAssocScm isn't supported for fieldType <xxx>"
- Resolving validation errors - "SortOrder must be in sequential order from 1" on Duplicate Rule metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "This custom field is referenced elsewhere in salesforce.com. : Flow Version - <version_number>"
- Resolving validation errors - "Test only deployment cannot update a field from a MasterDetail to Lookup"
- Resolving validation errors - "Test only deployment cannot update a field from a Lookup to MasterDetail"
- Resolving validation errors - "The approver null has an invalid type. Replace PreviousApprover with a valid enumeration value"
- Resolving validation errors - "The CustomObjectTranslation called <xxx> is standard and cannot be deleted"
- Resolving validation errors - "The field apiVersion can't be "<xxx>""
- Resolving validation errors - "The filter logic references an undefined filter" on FlexiPage metadata
- Resolving validation errors - "The sharing calculation you requested can't be processed right now...".
- Resolving validation errors - "There is already a Child Relationship named [RelationshipName] on [ObjectName" on CustomField metadata
- Resolving validation errors - "There is more than one instance identifier with the same name <xxx>"
- Resolving validation errors - "This profile is referenced elsewhere in Salesforce. Remove the usage and try again." on Profile metadata type
- Resolving UNKNOWN errors - "UNKNOWN_EXCEPTION: An unexpected error occurred. Please include this ErrorId if you contact support
- Resolving validation errors - "Unknown user permission: packaging2promoteversion" on Profile metadata
- Resolving validation errors - "Unsupported custom field type conversion attempted."
- Resolving validation errors - "Variable does not exist: <xxx>" on Apex class metadata
- Resolving validation errors - "We couldn't validate <property_name> in <file_path.json> for component <component_id>. Error:<specific_error_information>" on Experienced Bundle metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "You can't delete this approval process because records were submitted for approval and haven't completed the process"
- Resolving validation errors - "You may not modify the permission <xxx> while editing a Standard Profile"
- Resolving validation errors - "<xxx (Action) We can't find an action with the name and action type that you specified." on Flow metadata type
- Resolving validation errors -"<xxx> (Action) - We can't find an action with the name and action type that you specified" on Flow deployment with GenAiPromptTemplate included
- Resolving validation errors - "<xxx> - "apexClass" is invalid. Provide the API name of an Apex class that includes an Apex data type supported in flows."
- Resolving validation errors - "<xxx> does not exist or is not a valid override for action <yyy>"
- Resolving validation errors - "<xxx> is not a valid condition field for : <yyy>" on Duplicate Rule metadata type
- Resolving validation errors - "<xxx> isn't a valid value for Conditional Formatting."
- Resolving validation errors - "You cannot deploy to a required field: <xxx>"
- Resolving validation errors - "You can't edit tab settings for <xxx>, as it's not a valid tab." - where <xxx> refers to a specific Custom Object
- Resolving common validation errors related to 'Experience Bundle' metadata type
- Resolving FlexiPage validation errors: unused Facet regions
- The value for urlPathPrefix in DigitalExperienceConfig isn't valid. Check the value and try again
- Resolving CustomApplication validation errors: workspace mapping tab is not defined
- Resolving validation errors - "NoDataFoundException / check_access_nc error deploying Agentforce metadata"