Would that work even with user-generated error messages, since I'm not trying 
to trap a system error?  In this case, I've defined an error condition and am 
checking for it and then trying to raise that error to the user in a friendly 
way while stopping further processing.  I know I can display a Message of type 
Error, but that is what I'm trying to avoid.  If I "display" a Message of type 
Error and then define an error handler, will it keep that message from popping 
up?

Thanks,
Lyle

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[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:39 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Exit Guide Problem

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With the 7.1 error handling feature you could trap the OOB error message and 
display your own user friendly error message. You'd use the $ERRNO$, ERRMSG$ 
and/or the $ERRAPPENDMSG$ keywords in the qualification of the error handling 
filter

Guillaume


-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Lyle Taylor
Sent: Mon 06/15/09 3:31 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Exit Guide Problem

Hi all,

ARS 7.1

I'm having what I think is an issue with some Active Link Guides and an Exit 
Guide action that isn't working the way I was expecting.  The short of it is 
that I was trying to provide a more user friendly experience by displaying a 
custom dialog for errors encountered during data validation rather than popping 
up an OOB Error Message.  The workflow is written so that if an error doesn't 
occur (i.e., workflow processing actually makes it to that point), then it 
assumes that everything's OK and does the rest of the actions.  The problem I'm 
having is that I'm calling a couple guides from within another.  In one of the 
nested guides, I have an Exist Guide action with "Exit All Guides" checked.  My 
understanding of this was that at this point, all the guides in the "stack" 
would stop processing at that point.  This doesn't appear to be happening, 
however.  The two inner guides appear to stop at that point, but not the outer 
one.

What I've got is something like this:

ALG - Submit Record
                AL - Save Record
                AL - Disable Submit Button
                AL - Display Successful Submission Message

The Save Record AL simply calls another Active Link Guide:

ALG - Save Record
                AL - Check Required Fields
                AL - Push record to base form

The Check Required Fields AL calls yet another Guide:

ALG - Check Required Fields
                AL - Check Field 1
                AL - Check Field 2
                AL - Exit Guide (if none of the Check field actions encountered 
any issues, then this guide only will get exited)
                Label: Required Field Missing
                AL - Display Message Dialog with Error Info

All the Check Field active links simply set the error message and then go to 
the label.    The "Display Message Dialog with Error Info" opens the dialog 
with the error message and then has an Exit Guide action with Exit All Guides 
selected.  This should cause it to exit the Save Record guide before saving the 
record as well as the Submit Record guide before disabling the button and 
displaying the success message.  The problem is, it is only working part of the 
way.  The record doesn't get saved, so it does appear to be exiting the Save 
Record guide properly.  However, it still runs the rest of the Submit Record 
guide.

Any ideas why it might be behaving this way?

Thanks,
Lyle Taylor


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