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3060972 - Error While Trying to Delete an Add-On : Solution Cannot be Deleted Before Patch Solution is Discarded

Symptom

You are trying to delete a PDI Add-On from Cloud Application Studio, but the deletion failed with the below error:-

"Solution YXYZ_ cannot be deleted before patch solution YPQR_ is discarded"

Where YXYZ_ is the orginal solution namespace and YPQR_ is the patch solution namespace.

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer

SAP Business ByDesign

SAP Cloud Application Studio

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Login to the tenant in Cloud Application Studio.
  2. Right click on the solution under My Solutions.
  3. Click on Delete Solution.
  4. Error message appears.

Cause

Deletion of orginal solution is not allowed if a patch exists for the solution.

Resolution

You need to delete the corresponding patch solution first(YPQR_). Once the patch solution is completely deleted, you can proceed with the deletion of orginal solution(YXYZ_).

See Also

Refer to the below knowledge base article to know more about the deletion process from SDK:

How to Delete Solution from SDK

Keywords

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Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions ; SAP Cloud Applications Studio all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions