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stephanie

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Posts: 330

3/13/2012 4:10 PM

Can someone tell me what this addins error may mean -

Filter cannot begin with '&' or '|'

We just moved to apps v901, and queries that have never had problems are now returning this error. Seems to happen most often if I try to use criteria that is any option other than "=". I'm on the most recent add-ins version

Thanks in advance - I'm almost bald from pulling my hair out over this one!!

Greg Moeller

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Posts: 1498

3/13/2012 4:54 PM

Stephanie: Are you using queries built with your previous app version (900) and trying to make them work with your new 901 apps? What happens if you try and start over and build one from scratch?

stephanie

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3/13/2012 5:09 PM

Hi Greg - I've rebuilt every darn one - no cheating!!

Greg Moeller

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3/13/2012 5:24 PM

I know that we had to rebuild several of ours when we upgraded.

Greg Moeller

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3/13/2012 5:54 PM

I know that I've seen that error before, let me check my doco.

Greg Moeller

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3/13/2012 6:34 PM

Sorry, Stephanie, I've looked everywhere and cannot locate a resolution for this.

Gary Padgett

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3/13/2012 7:31 PM

Stephanie, do you see anything in IOS.log and/or webserver log files? I am curious as to what the whole string is. Or is there more stuff in the add-ins error log on the PC?

stephanie

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3/14/2012 8:47 AM

Here is an example of the addins error log one time when I received the error -

"ACTUAL CALL STRING THAT GENERATED THE ERROR:"
"https://paywebserv.house.gov/servlet/Router/Data/Erp?PROD=STAFFPROD&FILE=PRTAXLOC&INDEX=PXLSET1&KEY=4832&COND=ACTIVE&FIELD=EMPLOYEE;EMPLOYEE%2EFULL%2DNAME;EMPLOYEE%2EEMP%2DSTATUS;DED%2DCODE;ACTIVE%2DFLAG;EMP%2DDEDUCTION%2ERES%2DCODE;EMP%2DDEDUCTION%2EEFFECT%2DDATE;EMP%2DDEDUCTION%2EEND%2DDATE&SELECT=%26DED%2DCODE%3DTSMD&OUT=CSV&DELIM=%09&NOHEADER=TRUE&OTMMAX=2&OTMDELIM=~&NEXT=TRUE&MAX=1000"
"ERROR KEY = FILTER_STARTS_WITH"
"ERROR MESSAGE = Syntax error in filter: &DED-CODE=TSMD. Filter cannot begin with '&' or '|'.

There are additional "error details" - a LOT of lines of this -

" com.lawson.ios.dig.db.DmeException: FILTER_STARTS_WITH
at com.lawson.ios.dig.db.FilterManager.parseRawFilter(FilterManager.java:298)
at com.lawson.ios.dig.db.FilterManager.(FilterManager.java:200)
at com.lawson.ios.dig.db.DigObject.initFilterComponents(DigObject.java:799)
at com.lawson.ios.dig.db.DigObject.executeInternalRequest(DigObject.java:299)
at com.lawson.ios.dig.db.DigObject.executeRequest(DigObject.java:183)
at com.lawson.ios.dig.db.Dme.executeRequest(Dme.java:76)
at com.lawson.ios.dig.ErpDmeAgent.processRequest(ErpDmeAgent.java:114)

Do you need more? Many thanks for the efforts to assist me!!

Gary Padgett

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3/14/2012 10:53 AM

I think the error is coming from the part where it says
&SELECT=%26DED%2DCODE%3DTSMD
I believe the %26 is what is generating the error. The field name is just DED_CODE.
Can you try this string in your browser, removing that %26?

Sherry Shimek

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Posts: 43

6/6/2012 2:41 PM

When we upgraded, we installed the most recent version of MS Addins and then rebuilt all of our queries to resolve this issue. It may not be necessary for every current query, but it was faster to rebuild them once with an upgraded MS Addins version and the upgraded tables instead of painfully trying to run each query.