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This morning I deactivated an Account Record Type that we no longer use. We had no Accounts using that type and I satisfied all the Salesforce Requirements to deactivate. 

 

However, now when our users try to create a new Account record, on the screen where you choose the Account Record Type, we have a 'rogue' account type in the list that is not on any of our record type lists. I shows up as a SF record ID. Even stranger - anyone under my profile (Sys Admin) does not see that enrty, only non-Admins see it. What have I missed here?

 

Rogue Account Record Type
5 answers
  1. Jul 24, 2019, 9:35 PM
    May be a one off issue. glad to know the issue is fixed :)
  2. Jul 24, 2019, 9:26 PM
    Veera Gandi - that was a good idea. I tried anyways an it returned no results. 
  3. Jul 24, 2019, 9:22 PM
    The system seems to have fixed itself becasue I have not done anything, but the 'Rouge' record type is now gone. Strange....
  4. Jul 24, 2019, 9:17 PM
    This is weird..! This is definitely a salesforce issue because "Record Type Name field can only contain underscores and alphanumeric characters. It must be unique, begin with a letter, not include spaces". 

     

    Just out of curiosity, can you run the below query and see if it is returing any records.

    SELECT Id, Name FROM RecordType WHERE Id = '<Id visible in the screenshot>'

     

     
  5. Jul 24, 2019, 8:51 PM
    Just a bit more information on the above....I deactivated and deleted the unused Account Record Type. 
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