When publishing your Ribbon Workbench solution you may receive the following error:
"SecLib::RetrievePrivilegeForUser failed - no roles are assigned to user."
The first step in diagnosing these issues is to try and export the same solution using the CRM solutions area and then immediately re-import to see what error is shown. This is exactly what the Ribbon Workbench does behind the scenes.
When doing this you might see:
Upon Downloading the Log File you'll see that the error occurs on a 'Process' and the same error message is shown as reported by the Ribbon Workbench. The User ID is also given which can be used in a URL similar to the following to find the user record causing the issue.
https://<orgname>.crm.dynamics.com/userdefined/edit.aspx?etc=8&id=%7b<User GUID>%7d
You will most likely discover that this user has been disabled or has no roles assigned – this could be that they have left the company or changed job role. You will need to find any Workflows or Dialogs that are assigned to them and re-assign to yourself before you can import the solution.
In most cases, you should not include Dialogs or Workflows in the solution that is loaded by the Ribbon Workbench since this only slows the download/upload publish process down. There is one exception to this – and that is Business Rules. Business Rules are associated with their particular entity and cannot be excluded from the solution. Oddly like Workflows and Dialogs they also are owned by a user but it is not shown in the user interface – nor is there an option to re-assign. There is a handy option on a user record that allows you to 'Reassign Records'
You would think that this would reassign any Business Rules but unfortunately you'll get the following error:
"Published workflow definition must have non null activation id."
The only way to reassign these Business Rules is to perform an advanced find for Processes of Type 'Definition' and Category 'Business Rule'
The results can then be reassigned to yourself using the 'Assign' button on the results grid.
@ScottDurow