expanding an error description

Paul Looney support at ahsomme.com
Wed Jun 10 20:48:41 EDT 2009


Craig,
I agree with you on both points.
The advantage of good, universal, "background" error reporting is:
1. It helps pinpoint errors you've failed to trap (especially on  
large, complex systems) and
2. You can provide immediate, meaningful help to users encountering  
such errors.
Paul Looney

On Jun 10, 2009, at 2:46 PM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:

> It seems far more important, and far easier in the long run, to  
> validate
> entry data before it gets anywhere close to being mishandled. Check  
> to see if
> numbers are numbers, dates are dates, etc. I would bet that the  
> errors fall
> into a very few categories, and these can all be screened early on.
>
> Many newbie (ahem) error posts are of just this type, for example, an
> errant char in the second line of a field, and only the first line  
> is visible,
> where the contents of the field has some math done to it. So  
> another level of
> checking that I use all the time is to act only on line 1 of the  
> field that
> purportedly has valid data in it. But even this should really be  
> vetted at
> entry time.
>
> Craig Newman



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