Trying to import solution and getting dependency error. Not sure how to fix

[bdherh11]

I'm trying to import a solution that I backed up.  I'm getting the error attached about a dependency.  I'm not real sure how to resolve since I dont have access to the original solution.

[Amik]

Hi @bdherh11 ,

I assume this is a Managed Solution your importing?

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[bdherh11]

Hi Amik,

I have both managed and unmanaged backups.  I'm not real clear on the difference so I did them both.

[Amik]

@bdherh11 I recommend reading about what Solutions are via the Microsoft help pages. If you are importing and exporting Solutions in a Sandbox or Production environment, I would suggest you stop doing that immediately until you know what you're doing. 

If you have the Unmanaged Solution as a backup, import that Unmanaged Solution into your Developer environment, and then remove the dependant component (which looks to me like a web resource).

I emphasis again however, please understand what the differences between an Unmanaged and Managed Solutions are before proceeding any further. There are plenty of materials online.

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[bdherh11]

The solution is created unmanaged.  It was created in my old development environment I no longer have access to.  I'm trying to import it into another development environment.    What I meant was I have both unmanaged and managed backups.  The error you see is from the Unmanaged backup.  You stated to import the unmanged backup in my development environment, which is what I did and getting the error attached.  It wont import because of that missing dependency.  I need to know how to get past that error so I can get this imported into another development environment

[Amik · Accepted solution]

@bdherh11 - very often Solutions created in a non-developer environment include web resources which do not exist in a developer environment.

A last resort option would be editing the xml to remove all references to that dependency by creating a copy of the solution zip package, and then editing the solution/xml and customisations.xml files. Then export the modified package into the target environment.

https://www.tecman.co.uk/who-we-are/our-thoughts/dynamics-365-crm/item/409-missing-dependencies 

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[nelsonn]

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