So we have the exact same fields in the Sanbox and Production, however, when I run a select statement from the SOAP api, I am told a certain field is invalid. I confirmed it is not invalid.

The only difference is that in production, the user we are using for API access has limited access. Could this cause such an error? Or should I be looking elsewhere for the cause?

Attribution to: RJP

Possible Suggestion/Solution #1

Objects permission do matter a lot .If a user has no access to the object then we will run into this exception.

Please see that the user has atleast read acess .

Attribution to: Mohith Shrivastava
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