Unable to Clone or re-save Process that references Contact Field to update when two Person Account Record Types enabled
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Unable to Clone or re-save Process that references Contact Field to update when two Person Account Record Types enabled

Metadata , Flow , Process Builder

Last updated 2017-10-14 ·Reference W-2217671 ·Reported By 68 users

Fixed - Winter '18

Summary
Cloning or re-saving a process builder flow that has a reference to person account custom fields ( __pc ) throws an error like, "<customfield__c> for the object Account doesn't exist."

Repro
PreReq:
Enable Person Accounts
Create a Field on Contact Object

- Go to Setup--> Process Builder --> Create New process on Account.
- Add any criteria to the decision.
- Add a record update action to the criteria and select 'Account' as the object to update
- Select the contact custom field as a field to update and set any value on the field
- Save the Process
- Close and re-open the Process
- Try to save the process again and an error is thrown "customfield__c is not a valid field"

NOTE: We have noticed a similar issue with deploying Flows, and the fix for this bug would fix both the issues here, this is because opening a process in Process Builder, does count as a metadata retrieve of a Flow. If the Flow contains references to person account fields, it will be incorrectly retrieved.

Workaround
- If you notice this error while deploying a flow, edit the person account field references in the metadata and then deploy.

- A possible workaround for re-saving a Process is to edit the criteria after the Process is opened, select the person account fields again, and then re-save. This is not an option for cloning however.

Reported By (68)

Daniel Howell Regina Cortez Tony Fryer Dominic Ellis Jeanette Hagan Raz Yogev Ali Beydoun Anil Kumar Attelli Jeffrey Golembiewski Rahul Kaundal Jai Wadhwani Naushad Parpia Anna Lugo Alex Brooks Ryan McCullough Michel Lopes Admin Support Mathieu Gignoux CRM Hendercross David Wiens Dan Howell Rachel McLane Casey Hayes Matt Holloway Nigel Flear Mark Marchand Courtney Patterson Jim Zerbe Joe Shaben Craig Ceremuga NC-3759 Org Derek Meixell Dawn VanDamme Julie Tracz Janelle Danehy Adam Carey Matt Reiner Mimi Sakarett Mollie Cotroneo Chirag Gambhir Admin1 Admin1 Spencer Foreman Colin O'Brien John Climenhaga Varun Kavoori Administrateur Loik Raimbault Andrew Sisley Shubhanshu Verma Linda Zheng roman h Dmytro Kryvyi Yuriy Rykhva Olha Tymoshchuk Anastasiia Rudyk Michael Konyk Leonardo Macedo Tom Le Slobodan Berger Joe Sterne Ajay Tated Andrés Garate Chris Bair Geethes Jayarajah Jennifer W. Lee Ginny Holter David Holland Matthew Velez

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