I'm trying to update parent/child relationships between Account objects and I am getting the following error.

Child Accounts cannot be "Parent" Account Record Type (Additional Information Section Below). - FIELD_CUSTOM_VALIDATION_EXCEPTION

Not finding a lot on this error message (in whole or in part).

Anyone have any ideas?

For what its worth here is a code snipet and a brief explanation.

I'm iterating thru a list of companies on my local system.

I'm querying the child account and then the parent account in SF.

If the value int he child account is wrong, I attempt to set the ParentID and update the object.

FileLogger.debug(",SyncParentChild"); AssignmentRuleHeader arh = new AssignmentRuleHeader(); MruHeader mruh = new MruHeader(); AllowFieldTruncationHeader afth = new AllowFieldTruncationHeader(); DebuggingHeader dh = new DebuggingHeader(); EmailHeader eh = new EmailHeader(); DebuggingInfoHolder dih = new DebuggingInfoHolder(); SaveResult[] results = new SaveResult[1]; results[0] = new SaveResult(); QueryResult qr = null; QueryOptions qo = new QueryOptions(); Account parentAccount = new Account(); Account account = new Account(); arh.setUseDefaultRule(false); dh.setDebugLevel(DebugLevel.Db); Collection companyProfiles = (Collection)session.executeQuery("findAllCompanyProfileChildren", CompanyProfile.class, "130#7"); for (Iterator itr = companyProfiles.iterator(); itr.hasNext(); ) { companyProfile = (CompanyProfile)itr.next(); FileLogger.debug(companyProfile.getCustomerEntity() + ",UpdateParentChild = " + companyProfile.getOwnerEntity()); try { checkSforceSession(); qr = sforce_port.query("SELECT Id, ParentId FROM Account WHERE Customer_ID__c = '" + companyProfile.getCustomerEntity() + "'", sh, qo, mruh, pvh); } catch (ApiQueryFault e) { ApiQueryFaultHandler(e); } catch (ApiFault e) { ApiFaultHandler(e); } account = new Account(); if (qr.getSize() == 1) { account = (Account)qr.getRecords()[0]; } else if (qr.getSize() == 0) { FileLogger.warn(companyProfile.getCustomerEntity() + ",[SF] Unable to locate this Account to establish Parent account"); } else if (qr.getSize() > 1) { FileLogger.warn(companyProfile.getCustomerEntity() + ",[SF] Located multiple Accounts with this ID when establishing Parent account"); } try { checkSforceSession(); qr = sforce_port.query("SELECT Id FROM Account WHERE Customer_ID__c = '" + companyProfile.getOwnerEntity() + "'", sh, qo, mruh, pvh); } catch (ApiQueryFault e) { ApiQueryFaultHandler(e); } catch (ApiFault e) { ApiFaultHandler(e); } parentAccount = new Account(); if (qr.getSize() == 1) { parentAccount = (Account)qr.getRecords()[0]; FileLogger.debug(companyProfile.getCustomerEntity() +",Child is " + account.getId() ); FileLogger.debug(companyProfile.getCustomerEntity() +",Child has " + account.getParentId() + " Parent is" + parentAccount.getId()); if ((parentAccount.getId() != null) && ((account.getParentId() == null) || (account.getParentId().compareTo(parentAccount.getId())) != 0)) { account.setParentId(parentAccount.getId()); try { checkSforceSession(); results = sforce_port.update(new SObject[] { account }, sh, arh, mruh, afth, dh, pvh, eh, dih); for (SaveResult result: results) { if (!result.isSuccess()) { for (Error err: result.getErrors()) { FileLogger.warn(companyProfile.getCustomerEntity() + ",[SF] The Parent Account Update failed because: " + err.getMessage() + " - " + err.getStatusCode()); } } } } catch (ApiQueryFault e) { ApiQueryFaultHandler(e); } catch (ApiFault e) { ApiFaultHandler(e); } } } else if (qr.getSize() == 0) { FileLogger.warn(companyProfile.getOwnerEntity() + ",[SF] Unable to locate this Parent Account when establishing Parent account"); } else if (qr.getSize() > 1) { FileLogger.warn(companyProfile.getOwnerEntity() + ",[SF] Located multiple Parent Accounts with this ID when establishing Parent account"); } }