Property ‘picklist’ not valid

Change the markup format for picklist values if trying to deploy using API 39.0 or later. Picklist tag has been deprecated after API 39.0.

Posted by Vinay Vernekar 27th January 2020

Similar to the issue posted here while deployment, I faced another identical issue due to deprecated API tags. This time we get following error:

Property ‘picklist’ not valid in version 45.0

This was happening because tag was deprecated in API 39.0. Solution is to replace old tags with new format.

Old Format:

<fields>
	<fullName>Status</fullName>
	<externalId>false</externalId>
	<label>Status</label>
	<picklist>
		<picklistValues>
			<fullName>In Progress</fullName>
			<default>false</default>
		</picklistValues>
		<picklistValues>
			<fullName>Completed</fullName>
			<default>false</default>
		</picklistValues>
		<restrictedPicklist>true</restrictedPicklist>
		<sorted>false</sorted>
	</picklist>
	<required>false</required>
	<trackTrending>false</trackTrending>
	<type>Picklist</type>
</fields>

New Format:

<fields>
	<fullName>Status</fullName>
	<externalId>false</externalId>
	<label>Status</label>
	<type>Picklist</type>
	<valueSet>
		<restricted>true</restricted>
		<valueSetDefinition>
			<sorted>false</sorted>
				<value>
					<fullName>In Progress</fullName>
					<default>false</default>
					<label>In Progress</label>
				</value>
				<value>
					<fullName>Completed</fullName>
					<default>false</default>
					<label>In Progress</label>
				</value>
		</valueSetDefinition>
	</valueSet>
</fields>