CRM for Phones: "A primary entity column cannot have a dot in its name"
When using the new CRM For Phones and CRM for Tablets apps against Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1, I was getting the following error. “Sorry, something went wrong while initializing the app. Please try again, or restart the app.” I looked into some of the standard troubleshooting steps for this one and none of them applied. So I enabled tracing . It was a big PITA to install all 150mb of iTunes and wait for sync, but it was worth it because I found the following error in the logs. [code] Error Message:Microsoft.Crm.CrmInvalidOperationException: Unable to process the following entities – contact. Please try disabling the entities and try again. —> Microsoft.Crm.CrmException: A primary entity column cannot have a dot in its name [/code] The key being A primary entity column cannot have a dot in its name . Because “having a dot in its name” alludes to an aliased field, I checked that my custom code didn’t contain anything odd ...