[johrstrom]

https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation-test/debug-missing-submit/how-tos/debug/debug-interactive-apps.html#empty-variables-in-submit-yml-erb

Fixes #241 though that issue has changed over time.

From the original issue you'd get an error message about undefined or missing method X, this no longer occurs and whatever is missing is just nil without any error at all. So users would end up submitting empty strings or zeros where this missing variable should be.

This also just adds a ToC to this page.

[moffatsadeghi]

Just a few questions / feedback from a non-technical perspecitive:

Could we add a sentence about where administrators should look for the error output after adding this?

Could we also like soften the last paragraph to say that a missing variable may be due to a misspelling or an option missing from the form section just so we aren't implying those are the only two possible causes unless those are the only two possible causes.

[johrstrom]

Could we add a sentence about where administrators should look for the error output after adding this?

It's tricky but I can try with an example. It's tricky because there may be no error.

Could we also like soften the last paragraph to say that a missing variable may be due to a misspelling or an option missing from the form section just so we aren't implying those are the only two possible causes unless those are the only two possible causes.

Yea I'll use the phrase 'most likely' and re-arrange it a little bit.

[johrstrom]

Updates made and I've updated the original comment's link to point directly to the page and section that's being updated.