Recently, I worked on the issue where user were getting below error message while adding existing task to his Timesheet.
Error: Sorry, something went wrong
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Ran the SQL profiler trace and was unable to find any SQL exception. That means issue is not at database level, but may be at Web Service Level. A quick review of ULS log showed the below exception.
[bucketHash:9283A6E4] System.InvalidOperationException: Error during serialization or deserialization using the JSON JavaScriptSerializer. The length of the string exceeds the value set on the maxJsonLength property. at System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer.Serialize(Object obj, SerializationFormat serializationFormat) at
The error indicates that data retrieved is way more than the specified threshold value. After running the SQL query, I found that the user had 560 assignments. We reduced the assignments by “Closing Task to updates” for completed tasks the user and that helped to resolve this issue.














