An "invalid value" being provided for the parameter 'appIdName'?

Question

I've been working on this app for several weeks, and everything's been great. I've been building and archiving and having a ball. All certificates and profiles and IDs have (seemingly) been in order and working well.

Then a few days ago, seemingly without any change that I can discern, Xcode said I didn't have any "provisioning profiles with a valid signing identity", and when I told it to "fix issue" I would get this error every time:

An invalid value 'Xcode: Wildcard AppID' was provided for the parameter 'appIdName'.

I've found a few questions that seem similar, but I can't find anything at all about this error specifically. Google, SO, nothing. I do have an AppID in the Developer Portal called "Xcode: Wildcard AppID" with an ID of *, and I've tried making another (as suggested in those other questions) but it hasn't helped.

Can anyone explain what this error means, and how I might go about fixing it? And for bonus points, what caused it so I can avoid this in the future?

Answer 1

I was able to get it working. I tried what Cirec Beback suggested, but here are more specific instructions:

1. Go to the Apple Developer Member Center, and sign in
2. Go to your "Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles"
3. Under "iOS Apps", select "Provisioning Profiles"
4. Near the top, in the "iOS Provisioning Profiles" header, hit the + button
5. Select "iOS App Development" and hit Continue
6. From the dropdown, select your "Xcode: Wildcard AppID" option and hit Continue
7. Select your user, or everybody, and hit Continue
8. Select whatever devices you want, I did all of them, and hit Continue
9. Give the Provisioning Profile a name, and hit Continue
10. The next screen will have instructions, but basically it will have a download link, so download the provisioning profile, and open it. Then you should be all good!

Answer 2

This may happen if you do not have an updated provisioning profile.

To fix..

1. Go to Xcode preferences.

2. From the top tab select Accounts.

3. Click View Details button(Bottom right).

4. A screen will open showing all the provisioning profiles. Click the refresh button (Bottom left) and wait the refresh to finish.

5. Check your bundle identifier(General tab) and your provisioning profile(Build Settings).

6. Clean build.