Organization Administration Locked...?

Question

After having my Developer Console not be able to save a class that I edited, I faced this error message when trying to edit/save the class directly in the browser:

Organization Administration Locked

"The changes you requested require salesforce.com to temporarily lock your organization's administration setup. However, the administration setup has already been locked by another change. Please wait for the previous action to finish, then try again later."

Any idea what is causing this and/or what I can do to fix it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This usually means:

1. Something is being deployed via API (check Setup -> Monitor Deployments)
2. Something is being deployed via changesets (Setup -> Deploy -> Inbound change sets)
3. You're running some unit tests.

Your request (from developer console, Eclipse or whatever) might have been canceled / timed out but the deployment still runs. One of these means should give you a hint what's going on.... You might also check setup aoudit trail if the condition persists.

If your class failed to save but it seems to be still checking - maybe you've modified something "big". Will many visualforce pages / apex clases that rely on this class suddenly become invalid because you deleted a lot? In that case it might be worth a while to help SF dependency checker by commenting out majority of these VF classes before saving your main change...

Answer 2

I've experienced this. It has ALWAYS been a situation where dev console doesn't like something about a dependency...crAzy annoying that it won't tell you which one.

Best solution is to open up all the referenced components, composition templates, classes, classes with methods called by those classes, etc. add a space somewhere and resafe...dev console will fuss about one of them. Fix that, and you fix the problem.

Note...there likely nothing officially wrong with your code. The ones I've had would save out of IDE or the develop>classes edit. It's something specific that dev console doesn't like.

Answer 3

A circular dependency between a Page and Controller will produce your exact symptoms, but I'd raise a case to Salesforce. There are reasonable situations where this may happen inadvertently:

Jackerman.page

<apex:page controller="JackermanController">
  <apex:form>
    <apex:commandButton value="Create new Contact then come back" action="{!doRedirect}" />
  </apex:form>
</apex:page>

JackermanController.cls

public class JackermanController {
  public PageReference doRedirect() {
    String retUrl = Page.Jackerman.getUrl();
    return '/003/e?' + retUrl;
  }
}

In that example, one could do new PageReference('/apex/Jackerman').getUrl() to remove the compile-time dependency from the Apex class... unless your org is locked, that is ;-)

Answer 4

This may not be your issue, but I've had instances where a pending deployment got stuck and locked out the org completely. Usually this resolves itself in a day, but if it doesn't you can contact support to unstick it.

Answer 5

Regarding Organization Administration Locked This is mysterious (for unknown reason).

My case that cause of Apex Compilation Errors, before knowing this I'm trying to add a new file and sfdc returning me "Organization Administration Locked".

To know what wrong Setup -> Develop -> Apex Classes > Compile all classes. Then the problem will shown and after fix the compilation error, "Organization Administration Locked" is gone.

Answer 6

Additional case that it can happen- if you lots of classes/trigger and you use the button 'Compile All', then this process might take few minutes (and you cannot stop it). During this time the organization is locked for changes and you just have to wait few minutes.