Display text (label) not updating

Question

I have done a change in my DEV environment (which holds all the Unmanaged solutions) on a solution in which there is the Account entity.

I made a few changes on display text for specific fields (ex: I had a field whose display text was 'Primary Contact', now has been changed to 'Billing Contact').

In DEV, the changes do come up OK after publishing all customizations, but is not updated in the target TEST environment under which I imported the solution as Managed.

I made sure to increment the version # of said solution and schema names have not changed.

Any ideas ? Thanks.

EDIT: In my DEV env. I did export/import translations and changed the display strings/localized labels to support french, the new french label has made it to the target, but the english label has not. (??).

Answer 1

The way solutions are handled within CRM 2011/2013 are that unmanaged solutions sit on top of any managed solutions. It's more than likely you have an unmanaged solution with the account entity included and the "Primary Contact" set as the label.

http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC443916.png

Alternatively, this could be related to the UR you are presently on. Prior to UR12, this was an issue. To remedy, you can either create a brand new managed solution with this label change or update the roll-up. Unfortunately, incrementing an existing solution doesn't update labels appropriately (prior to UR 12).

https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/88156.aspx