That's the way we do it here, and find it works quite well. It also allows
us to not only email the error out along with a dump of all the variables
and their values at the time of the error. We can also insert into a task
manager we have, and it can then be assigned to one of our developers.
Fred
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Error Handling
> As much as like the concept of the bubble-up error handling. I
> personally handle errors differently. I attempt to catch EVERY error
> ever generated by CF and email me all the debugging info. While giving
> the user a standard "uh oh" message.
>
> It's a pain in the ass when you first launch, but you'll fix most of
> your errors within your first day. Then you don't have to worry about
> your error handler not working correctly.
>
> Steve
>
> Gary Morin wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I'm just about to start implementing error handling in XFB application,
I
> > will probably implement code similar to Hal Helms nested error handling
> > code.
> >
> > Often errors are generated/captured in act_ pages, from the user
perspective
> > a polite message informing him of the error and requesting to do the
> > appropriate action to correct the problem, this action may be refreshing
the
> > page, or doing a login etc. Cftry and Cfcatch will be used to handle the
> > errors
> >
> > My question is what is the excepted way to notify the problem to the
user?
> > In some examples, including Hal's, HTML messages are placed directly in
the
> > act file or even in the index.cfm, if the nested error handling code is
> > used. Or should I use an 'Error fuse' to display and error message and
use
> > a XFA to return the user to the appropriate position to continue( this
would
> > also require all variables to be passed through the error handling
code).
> >
> > So how do others handle simple errors and informing users?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
>
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