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    Hi All,

    "Text Entered exceeds maximum length" is the error that I get when I am using a workflow to close opportunities. The primary attribute of opportunity is an nvarchar value whose limit I have set to 450 which I guess the maximum limit. The attribute value in the opportunity does not exceed more than 150 characters for all the opportunity. Yet the workflow fails to execute with the following error.

    Could you please let me know whether the limit 450 means 450 characters or not?

    Monday, September 13, 2010 9:55 AM

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    Because Opportunities capture their closure as an Activity ("Opportunity Close"), which naturally are created when the status of the Opportunity progresses to a closed state, the "Subject" of that activity is copied from the Topic of the Opportunity.  If the "Subject" of the Opportunity Close entity is not extended to match the Opportunity's "Topic" field, then the error you're receiving will occur.
    Dave Berry - MVP Dynamics CRM - http:\\crmentropy.blogspot.com
    Wednesday, October 6, 2010 9:06 PM
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    it may not be this attribute at all..it could be some different attribute which is cuasing this..

    best thing is to try to same thing manually (ie. put same information on the fields) and then see if this works manually or not..

     

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    Monday, September 13, 2010 10:15 AM
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    I have tried closing the opportunity manually it works. It only gives error in workflow.

    Monday, September 13, 2010 10:37 AM
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    What are the steps in your workflow? 

    You can also check the application log of the CRM server to see if you get more details on the error, check the failed system job or turn Dev errors on.

    Regards, Donna

    Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:58 AM
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    I am actually having the exact same issue.  My workflow suddenly stopped working in mid-September.  My workflow does the following:

    IF Opportunity Status="Open" and Opportunity Stage ="100%-Closed", then Change record status to: "Opportunity Won"

    The workflows are errored in a Waiting state, with the error of "Text Entered exceeds maximum length".

    I am not entering any text!!!

     

    Wednesday, October 6, 2010 5:23 PM
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    Hi,

    If you have expanded the 'name' field of the opportunity and it exceeds the subject field of the activity, the workflow might throw this error because when you set the Status of an Opportunity to Closed / Won, CRM creates an 'Opportunity Close' activity.  The subject field length of the ActivityPointer entity is 200 so this could be an issue, not sure as I haven't tested it.

    Regards, Donna

    Wednesday, October 6, 2010 8:53 PM
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    Because Opportunities capture their closure as an Activity ("Opportunity Close"), which naturally are created when the status of the Opportunity progresses to a closed state, the "Subject" of that activity is copied from the Topic of the Opportunity.  If the "Subject" of the Opportunity Close entity is not extended to match the Opportunity's "Topic" field, then the error you're receiving will occur.
    Dave Berry - MVP Dynamics CRM - http:\\crmentropy.blogspot.com
    Wednesday, October 6, 2010 9:06 PM
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    Haha, nice find Donna.  I didn't read your response before I posted mine.  :P  Apologies for the redundancy.
    Dave Berry - MVP Dynamics CRM - http:\\crmentropy.blogspot.com
    Wednesday, October 6, 2010 9:08 PM
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    No problem, its good to see the confirmation of the resolution, take care!

    Regards, Donna

    Wednesday, October 6, 2010 9:17 PM