CRM Customization Import failed Error: Invalid name prefix

Hi,

While importing customization from development to staging server we were receiving the error.

It was giving the error on a particular relationship “opportunity_new_dataaudit”.

What we did was to comment the entire EntityRelationShip tag for that particular relationship along with it’s corresponding EntityMap entry in the customization.xml

i.e.

<EntityRelationship Name=”Opportunity_New_DataAudit“>
<EntityRelationshipType>OneToMany</EntityRelationshipType>
<ReferencingEntityName>New_DataAudit</ReferencingEntityName>
<ReferencedEntityName>Opportunity</ReferencedEntityName>
<CascadeAssign>NoCascade</CascadeAssign>
<CascadeDelete>RemoveLink</CascadeDelete>
<CascadeReparent>NoCascade</CascadeReparent>
<CascadeShare>NoCascade</CascadeShare>
<CascadeUnshare>NoCascade</CascadeUnshare>
<ReferencingAttributeName>new_opportunityid</ReferencingAttributeName>
<RelationshipDescription>
<Descriptions>
<Description description=”Unique identifier for Opportunity associated with Data Audit.” languagecode=”1033″ />
</Descriptions>
</RelationshipDescription>
<field name=”new_opportunityid” requiredlevel=”none” imemode=”auto” lookupstyle=”single” lookupbrowse=”0″>
<displaynames>
<displayname description=”Opportunity” languagecode=”1033″ />
</displaynames>
</field>
<EntityRelationshipRoles>
<EntityRelationshipRole>
<NavPaneDisplayOption>UseCollectionName</NavPaneDisplayOption>
<NavPaneArea>Details</NavPaneArea>
<NavPaneOrder>10000</NavPaneOrder>
</EntityRelationshipRole>
</EntityRelationshipRoles>
</EntityRelationship>

AND

<EntityMap>
<EntitySource>opportunity</EntitySource>
<EntityTarget>new_dataaudit</EntityTarget>
<AttributeMaps />
</EntityMap>
<EntityMap>

And than we tried importing it and it worked for us.

And there was another way we were able to resolve this error, quite interestingly when we changed the name of EntityRelationship from

Opportunity_New_DataAudit

to

new_Opportunity_New_DataAudit
<EntityRelationship Name=”new_Opportunity_New_DataAudit“>
<EntityRelationshipType>OneToMany</EntityRelationshipType>
<ReferencingEntityName>New_DataAudit</ReferencingEntityName>

i.e simply appending new_ to relationship name in the customization.xml it imported successfully !

Bye…