Unable to change project Lifecycle: A channel ID must be provided to enable automatic release creation

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I’m using Octopus 3.2.22 and have a project with 5 channels. When trying to change the project lifecycle I get the following error:

There was a problem with your request.
•A channel ID must be provided to enable automatic release creation.

I’m not using the built-in feed or automatic release creation. I’ve tried changing the lifecycles of each channel individually and that works, but still unable to change the project lifecycle

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Update:

I switched to the built-in nuget feed and found that the Automatic Release checkbox was ticked.

Unticking this, switching back to the external feed, and then changing the lifecycle worked.

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for getting in touch. I’m glad you found a workaround. We did have a related issue that we fixed in Octopus 3.2.2 which proposed a similar workaround before we fixed that particular bug: https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/2128

I think you have somehow fallen into a similar situation. The core problem seems to be that ARC was enabled for the Project without specifying a Channel, even though you were using an external package feed. This would invisibly cause the Project validation to fail since you need to specify a Channel for ARC, and this would get triggered when trying to change the Project Lifecycle.

I’ve raised a GitHub Issue to investigate whether we could/should auto-heal the project if it becomes misconfigured, but I don’t think this situation will be very common.

Hope that helps!
Mike