"Formula error in input field..." error message doesn't state what the error is
I'd like to offer some feedback on Formula validation. When I get the error "Formula error in input field Message " it's very annoying that it doesn't tell me what the problem is. Even if the error messages won't be understandable to some users, it would be good to have a "more details" or "advanced details" link that I can click to give me the technical error message, so we can get the developers in our team to help out with it (in this case, I am the developer, so have a good chance of understanding the message).
For example, it didn't give me any help when I tried to use a formula that contains:
1.month.ago.year
In the end I figured out that I had to use strftime("%Y") instead of .year but the error message gave me no guidance on that.
Martin Pain
"Formula error in input field..." error message doesn't state what the error is
I'd like to offer some feedback on Formula validation. When I get the error "Formula error in input field Message " it's very annoying that it doesn't tell me what the problem is. Even if the error messages won't be understandable to some users, it would be good to have a "more details" or "advanced details" link that I can click to give me the technical error message, so we can get the developers in our team to help out with it (in this case, I am the developer, so have a good chance of understanding the message).
For example, it didn't give me any help when I tried to use a formula that contains:
In the end I figured out that I had to use strftime("%Y") instead of .year but the error message gave me no guidance on that.