@error not work in 6.5?

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Hello Everyone,

I have a function that is intended to error out(@error) when condition is met. But I notice now that it does not. I’ve gone ahead and put @error in a field and I get the text “@error” with no error?

Is there a setting to get the error to return?

thanks,

Tom

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Subject: RE: @error not work in 6.5?

Errors are still generated in formula language. Perhaps there’s something that’s changed about the way error results are handled in the context in which you are using the formula. If you gave details about what you’re doing someone might be able to help.

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Subject: RE: @error not work in 6.5?

Hello Andre Guirard,

I put a field on the form that is computed with the formula “@Error”. Having a field like this locked out a form. Now it doesn’t. I want an error to be generated, and the user forwared to the default error form.

later,

tom

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Subject: RE: @error not work in 6.5?

It sounds like this is a Domino web application. Is it? What is the exact formula? Why are you doing this? This is the sort of information I meant when I asked for details.

I haven’t observed this change myself. It probably is deliberate; I expect many developers found it inconvenient that any formula error would make the form unusable.

I think that deliberate use of @Error to force a web page to be unreadable must be very rare. It’s more usual to use document reader fields to prevent access entirely. If you want users to be able to see the documents in a view but not open them, you can use HTML to display the view, and hide the link column. Mark the form as Notes client only. There are many alternatives if you think about it.

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Subject: I also remember it working that way for ever. If a formula for a field resulted in @Error…

the form would not open. It sure does now.

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Subject: I take your word there has been a change; I consider it an enhancement not a bug.

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Subject: Agreed, I might have been one of the people who voted for that PF Wishlist.

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Subject: @error not work in 6.5?

Does anything generate an error now? I’ve done this @texttonumber(“here”) and I get the text @error. I’ve even divided by zero and nadda.

Any way to generate an error anymore, intentionally? Sheesh, all the errors and bugs in domino, and they take way the intentional ones. :wink:

later,

tom