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Can you deliberately throw a fatal error in a fast formula?

in Payroll and Global Payroll Interface (GPI) 2 comments

Summary:

Can you write a line of code that immediately causes an employee's payroll calculation to error with a user-defined message?

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There are times when a simple data error causes a fatal condition deep within multiple layers of Oracle fast formula code. These error messages tend to not be helpful in determining what went wrong, e.g. "Error was encountered when processing payroll relationship XXXXXXX" and giving a line of code in one of Oracle's formulas. You may be able to dig into those formulas and figure out what invalid data caused it, but this isn't easy and in payroll you generally want a quick solution. Really the payroll should degrade gracefully and output helpful warning and error messages, but we all

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