Agreed - last resort is to track this down in Prod. But, sadly - the team can't seem to recreate the Bug - it just kinda Happens. So - even if I did something in Dev - I could be wasting my time - trying things over and over - and the error won't happen!
I'm going to go chat with them now - and see if there isn't some way I can TRY to make this error happen again. Will report back here with what I find...
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 10:38 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: A Strange Excel Data Problem...
Well, rather than instrumenting the Production version, create one in Development and attempt to reproduce the problem. If that doesn't work, promote it to Testing and see if it can be reproduced there. Only as a last resort do you want the Production version to be used to track down a bug.
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Kurt Wendt Kurt_Wendt@globetax.com wrote:
In the Bar at the top - it literally shows Just that - and nothing more - just: #NUM!
The spreadsheet has no expressions when its generated - just values.
I may have to try that output to a Memo field. Although, here its not so simple. Everything must be in Releases. And, each release is based upon these PIDs (I think it stands for Proj ID #'s) - then every change has to go thru QA Testing and then potentially UAT testing. Fun, fun indeed!
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 9:58 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: A Strange Excel Data Problem...
Open one of the spreadsheets and click in a cell that says #NUM! -- literally, Not A Number.
Look in the bar across the top and see what the expression in the cell is.
You can add a little instrumentation to the application to capture what is requested and what is output -- memo fields are good for this, but remember to clean them out before the database gets too big (PACK MEMO).
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Kurt Wendt Kurt_Wendt@globetax.com wrote:
So - here at my day job my main task is to support this one team of users. And, they're job is the Most Time critical here in this co. As such, things must always be done in a timely manner - and support of them is critical in that they Can not have the system down at any point in time.
Well - part of the system outputs an Excel file that must be sent to the clients. There is a problem that they have had over time. It's kind of intermittent. Although - yesterday it happened to Four of the users about the same time. So - they were kinda freakin' out.
Problem is - they can't generally replicate the problem. So - if they can't give me instructions on how to re-create the problem, its Nearly impossible to try and fix the problem.
Anyway - here's the issue. In a number of Cells in the spreadsheet - it contains the following as a value: #NUM!
And - yeah - that's exactly what it looks like - and I just copied it right from the cell.
Has anyone seen this kind of problem before???
Lastly - we are using VFP9 - and the Excel file is created using the COPY command.
Also - did a Google search - and one hit was M$ and a help page - it claimed: Excel shows this error when a formula or function contains numeric values that aren't valid.
But - of course, its Straight data being exported - NO Formulas!
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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