I recently changed some LE names on my form to kind of clean things up a bit and to add some consistency throughout.

I even went to the Program Editor and checked all of my event programming to make sure the LE's were right.

However, every time I go to to Preview Mode then open my form I get this message:

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Is there anything else I should check? Or is there some kind of log I could access that shows me exactly what's failing to compile?

If everything tests just fine when you click Test->Test Program, there are two possibilities.

1: Your programming is referencing an element that is on the canvas but not on the form itself. The canvas is the gray area that appears to the left and below the form in designer. Elements placed on it are not shown in Preview mode or Runtime. Since these elements are available in designer when the programming is tested, the programming compiles but doesn't work when you go to preview mode.

2: You are using the form name someplace in your programming without quotes around it. An example of this is

vVar = @FormFieldValue(FormName, "ElementName", 0) 

. Note: If you are on 2.6.2, the above code will throw a compile error in Designer. If you are on 2.6.2 and able to use the form name in a way that does not give an error when testing but does when running the application; please send the design file to support@lantica.com so that we can catch that case as well.

Carl, You can't rename an element to have the same name as your form.

-Ray

Ray,

I know I ran into something like this once. I guess I was thinking about possibility #2.

actiontech wrote on Oct 31^st, 2016 at 11:53pm:


No it's not. A quick glance at the design files that you sent into support shows that your Jobs form has a compile error.

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The only time you should be using FormFieldValue() to access the current form is when you are using it to set a value in a non-text field in Search Mode. If you are using it in Update or Add mode, you probably shouldn't be.

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There is no best practice per say. You use quotes when you need them, and don't use them when you don't need them. You use quotes when you are passing the name of the element to a function such as FormFieldValue() or XLookup(). You don't use quotes when you are referring to the value in that element or directly to that element.

-Ray

actiontech wrote on Nov 1^st, 2016 at 2:43pm:


It wasn't compiling as your code was using a name that was not an element name or a declared variable, So Sesame had no idea what you meant when you referenced vDateCompleted.

-Ray