Issues after upgrading because of existing entity Action

[leon]

Hi team!

Our EspoCRM environment contains an entity with the name Action (type Event).
After upgrade to 7.0.1 we get an error when saving a record for this Action entity.

Browser: Error 404: Not found
Log file:
[2021-10-05 18:56:55] ERROR: (404) Action POST 'process' does not exist in controller 'Action'.; POST /Action; line: 87, file: /wwwroot/application/Espo/Core/Api/ActionProcessor.php [] []


On the demo environment demo.eu.espocrm.com i tried to create a new entity with the name Action, type Event but this fails with the following error: Error 409: Entity name 'Action' is not allowed. Controller already exists.

Our Action entity is very deep integrated into our configuration. Is there a way to resolve this?

Thanks,

Leon

[esforim]

Look like you might have blunder using this name and since it become a reserve name (starting in v7 I assume) it will be bad if you try to keep the Action entity name while removing/changing core-code.

I think it would be a wiser idea to rename the Action entity to something else, then use the Label Manager/Translation to call it "Action".

As for how to change entity name, I'm not quite sure.

This post show how to copy one entity to another, basically a "backup" or duplicate solution: https://www.eblasoft.com.tr/post/clo...ity-in-espocrm

[yuri]

I'd rename your entity name. It's not that hard.

1. Rename all files named 'Action.*' (Action.json, Action.php) in the custom dir.
2. Replace all strings 'Action' in file contents in the custom dir. Use command "grep -R 'Action' custom" to find.
3. Rename database table 'action'.
4. Replace 'Action' column values in database. It can be parent_type, entity_type fields. Use search in database.

If you have external APIs calling "/api/v1/Action/..." that you can't change, that's more difficult. But solvable I believe.