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Enhancement around VRL RAISERROR in Viewpoint and Custom standard procedures

When using RAISERROR in a SQL trigger to prompt an error message, the message is not displayed through VRL. A generic "Error saving the record" appears while the real error message returned from the trigger is populated in DDAL. We either need the RAISERROR message passed through VRL, or for custom validation through Vista refined.


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When using RAISERROR in a SQL trigger to prompt an error message, the message is not displayed through VRL. A generic "Error saving the record" appears while the real error message returned from the trigger is populated in DDAL. We either need the RAISERROR message passed through VRL,

  • Veronica Healey
  • Nov 30 2021
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Vista Apps / Platform
Company Troy Life & Fire Safety Ltd
Job Title / Role Process and Systems Development manager
I need it... Yesterday...Come on already
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    Gary Gilmore commented
    January 04, 2022 21:07

    Understood and agree - we'll look to surface the full error message

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  • Daniel Armstrong commented
    December 01, 2021 14:24

    The only way to see detailed error messages is to query the vDDAL table in SQL. This is not conducive to productivity as users can't see what they need to be able to do their work.

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