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Is there a way we can catch exceptions in SAIL form? Something like try{}..catch

senthilar over 6 years ago

Is there a way we can catch exceptions in SAIL form? Something like try{}..catch{}...

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Mike Schmitt over 1 year ago in reply to davidl280 +2
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Interesting side note: wherecontains() was undocumented for a while before being officially added.
agustinc over 2 years ago +1 suggested

Yes! This is possible - it is a hidden/undocumented SAIL function. Try-catch in Appian SAIL: try ( [CODE], "Code failed" ) EDIT: Thank you, Josh, for that insight! Please exercise care when using this...
davidl280 over 1 year ago in reply to Mike Schmitt +1
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I heard from some engineers at Appian World that they think about documenting try(), from time to time. But then they think about what could happen in the global Appian ecosystem if they did that, and...

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0 Christine
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over 6 years ago

No. But what is your use case for having an exception in your SAIL expression? You should write your expression so that null variables, etc are accounted for so that your end users don't get unexpected results.
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0 Christine
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over 6 years ago

No. But what is your use case for having an exception in your SAIL expression? You should write your expression so that null variables, etc are accounted for so that your end users don't get unexpected results.
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