Comments on: MSCRM 3.0 Exporting and Importing Customization Notes

By: himanshu

himanshu — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:07:23 +0000

Hi Mitch,

I have imported 5-6 customisations with referntial relationship, but the problem is that i dont require them now, but now the referentional relationships between them are not getting deleted.

I have removed the relationship attribute from the form but then form is giving error while publishing, so neither i am able to publish the changes nor i am able to delete these custom entites.

Requires help, any input is appreciated.

Thanks

By: mitch

mitch — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:33:52 +0000

Glad to hear it Dustin.

By: Dustin Miller

Dustin Miller — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:14:25 +0000

Thanks Mitch, you saved me again with the link to the import site. I hadn't worked in 3.0 in a while.

By: ayazahmad

ayazahmad — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:42:40 +0000

I have recently upgraded my browser from IE6 to IE7. Now here comes the issue. Whenever I try to import my customizations, it shows the Import dialog box.

Here is a fix for it.

http://ayazahmad.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/problem-with-import-customization-in-internet-explorer-70/

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:38:18 +0000

I've seen this happen on every environment and every CRM 3.0 project so far.
No other developer is working on the target CRM, no users as well. IIS and SQL are doing mostly nothing. And still it can take lots of time for each entity to import.
Sometimes restarting the Deletion service can help a bit bot not dramatically.
Seems strange there are no similar cases on the newsgroups, cause 'd really like to find the source of this problem. It's really annoying.

By: mitch

mitch — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:44:39 +0000

Alex,

I haven't seen it take hours, but sometimes strange things do happen. I think a lot of it has to do with how busy the SQL server is.

I would suggest running Performance Monitor to monitor the SQL Servers's processor and memory counters to see if it's maxing out or anything.

The few times I have seen it take a while it will actually error out with a SQL error.

Hope this helps.

Mitch

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:54:57 +0000

Is it just me or does importing customizations can sometimes take hours?
I'm not getting errors during the customizations.xml import process but it just takes forever to complete. Sometimes I have only 5-6 custom entities and a few relationships and still, I could probably recreate all my customizations on the target CRM by hand
again, and still finish before the automated import process. This is driving me nuts.