Scripting error messages

The Warnings tab in the Report palette lists the following types of error messages associated with scripting errors in the form design:

JavaScript Scripting Errors

The following table lists and describes JavaScript scripting error messages.

Code

Error type

Error text

Error description

7001

Error

%1

A placeholder for any unexpected or unknown error. %1 can potentially contain any text.

7002

ReferenceError

Error %1 is undefined

An unqualified variable lookup failed.

7003

ReferenceError

Cannot assign value

An assignment attempts to access a constant such as a number, string, or XML.

7004

SyntaxError

Unterminated string constant

The closing quotation character (")was omitted at the end of a string constant.

Example:

var sName = "Name;

To correct this error, locate the affected line and add the missing quotation character(").

7005

SyntaxError

Unterminated comment

The closing comment characters (*/)were omitted at the end of a comment string.

Example:

/* The old fashioned comment style is still useful var i = 0;

To correct this error, locate the affected line and add the missing closing characters. In this example, add */ after the word useful.

Note that when using the single-line comment characters (//), there is no need to terminate the comment string with matching closing characters.

7006

SyntaxError

Bad digit in number

Contains a character that is not a number or a valid separator (a period or a space).

Examples:

123u8 123,8

7007

SyntaxError

Language feature %1 is not supported

Currently, only property getter and setter methods are unsupported, as defined in Mozilla SpiderMonkey. Getter and setter methods are not part of the JavaScript standard. This error also occurs when compiling JavaScript without XML support and attempting to use XML.

7008

SyntaxError

Syntax error

A generic (catch-all) syntax error.

7009

SyntaxError

Illegal use of reserved word '%1'

A keyword was used out of context.

Example:

var for = 56;

The word for is a reserved word and cannot be used as a variable name.

To correct this error, change the keyword to a non-reserved word.

7010

SyntaxError

Break or Continue outside a loop

The keywords break and continue are meant to be used inside a for loop or a while loop. The keyword break is also valid inside a switch statement. Using these keywords outside these structures is not permitted.

Examples:

Correct:

for (i = 0; i < 20; i++) 
{ 
        if (a == i) 
            break; 
}

Incorrect:

var sName = "Nicole"; 
break; 
var sAnimal = "cat";

To correct this error, remove the line with the break statement.

7011

SyntaxError

Label not found

JavaScript does not support goto, but it supports labels for continue and break statements.

Example:

outer: for (I = 0; I < 100; i++) 
{ 
    inner: while (condition) 
    { 
        if (bad) 
            break outer; 
    } 
}

To correct this error, ensure that any label used in a program is defined and that spelling is consistent where labels are referred to.

7013

SyntaxError

Too many closing braces

The program contains an unmatched closing brace.

Example:

if {sSoftware == "Designer"}  
{ 
    // Heh. 
    sDesc = "Form Design Software"; 
}}

To correct this error, remove the extra closing brace.

7014

SyntaxError

No matching closing brace found

A closing brace is missing somewhere in the program.

Example:

The closing brace of the for loop is missing in this program:

if {sSoftware == "Designer"} 
{ 
    for {i = 0; i < 7; i++} 
    { 
            nCount = nVer + 1; 
}

Despite the indentation that indicates the for loop is missing a closing brace, the error line usually indicates that the if statement is missing a brace. Generally, with a missing brace error, the outermost statement is reported to be missing the closing brace.

7015

SyntaxError

Try without catch/finally

The try statement cannot be used unless it is paired with the catch/finally statement.

To correct this error, remove the try statement or add a catch/finally statement.

7016

SyntaxError

Catch/finally without try

The catch/finally statement cannot be used unless it is paired with the try statement.

To correct this error, remove the catch/finally statement or add a try statement.

7017

TypeError

Variable expected

A variable name is expected.

Examples:

function f{1} {} try {} catch {"hi"} {} var 5;

The characters in bold are where a variable name is expected rather than a constant or a number.

7018

TypeError

Variable or value expected, but found %1

Rarely displayed.

The conversion of an object to a primitive value failed.

Example:

o={toString:function{){return 
this}}; 
o+"test";

7019

TypeError

Bad argument %1

A function argument cannot be converted to a suitable data type. For example, a function is expecting a number, but a string is passed in instead.

7020

TypeError

Bad argument list

There is a problem with the function's argument list, and the arguments cannot be used.

7021

TypeError

%1 is not an object

An invalid object is being used to perform an operation. An object is needed for an operation, but the data cannot be converted to an object.

Example:

var obj = null; obj.toString{};

Calling a method on obj fails because obj is null and not an object.

7022

ReferenceError

%1 does not have a constructor

Host objects that cannot be created, such as the Application object, have a dummy constructor function so that the prototype object can be accessed. An example is Application.prototype where an attempt was made to use this function as a constructor.

7023

ReferenceError

%1 does not have a value

The conversion of an object to a primitive value failed.

Example:

o={toString:function{}{return 
this}};

o+"test";

7024

ReferenceError

%1 is not a function

Something is invoked as a function, and it does not exist.

Example:

var f = "No function"; 
    f{};

7025

SyntaxError

Expected: %1

Parser expected a certain symbol but did not locate it. The missing symbol is often a single character but can be more than one character.

Example:

<xml>{javascript]</xml> // expected: }

The parser was expecting the closing symbol } after the word javascript to match the opening symbol.

7026

Error

%1 cannot work with this class

Methods were moved from one class to another. Only the String and Array methods are generic enough to work with different classes.

Example:

s = new String {'test'}; 
s.getTime = Date.prototype.getTime; 
s.getTime{};

7030

SyntaxError

Illegal 'return' outside a function body

Using the keyword return outside a function definition is not permitted.

To correct this error, remove the return statement.

7037

SyntaxError

Conversion error

A conversion from one character encoding to another fails. This is not a JavaScript error. It occurs, for example, when trying to read a malformed Shift-JIS file.

7038

SyntaxError

Partial multibyte

This error occurs during the conversion from one character encoding to another. This is not a JavaScript error. It occurs, for example, when the last byte of a UTF-8 file is missing when the file is read.

7039

SyntaxError

More than one switch default

The switch statement has a special label, default, which is the code that runs if no other case in the switch is chosen. Only one default label per switch statement is allowed.

Example:

switch {nVersion} 
    { 
case 1: 
    // ... 
    break; 
case 2: 
    // ... 
    break; 
default: 
    // ... 
    break; 
default: 
    // ... 
    break; 
};

To correct this error, delete all but one of the default labels.

7040

TypeError

%1 redeclared

A constant cannot be declared more than once. A variable can be declared more than once.

Example:

const a = 5; 
const a = 6;

7041

RangeError

%1 is out of range

An argument, index, or value exceeds the allowable numeric range.

Example:

Number {5}.toFixed {111}; // 100 is max

7042

SyntaxError

Catch after unconditional catch

JavaScript supports multiple catch clauses, but the last catch clause must be unconditional.

Example:

try {} 
catch {e if e instanceof String} {} 
catch {e if e > 5} {} 
catch {e} {} 
catch {e if typeof e == "object"} {}

To correct this error, move the illegal conditional catch clause before the unconditional catch clause, or delete it.

FormCalc Scripting Errors

The following table lists and describes FormCalc scripting error messages.

Code

Error Type

Error Text

Error Description

7008

SyntaxError

Syntax error near token ‘%1’ on line %2, column %3.

A generic {catch-all} FormCalc error.

Generally, %1 contains the token (word) nearest to the error. The token may not be associated with the error, other than proximity to the problem.

Example:

var b = abc{1} 
if {b ne 1} then 
//comment

The error in this example is that the endif token is missing from the script. The last correct token is then. Comments do not count as tokens.

To correct this error, add an endif statement to the end of the script.

7100

SyntaxError

Function '%1'on line %2, column %3 is built in.

A user-defined function used the same name as a built-in function.

Line and column numbers provide information to locate where the error appears on a line.

Example:

func sum{} 
do 
x = 1 
endfunc

7101

SyntaxError

Function '%1'on line %2, column %3 is unknown.

A script attempted to invoke a function that is not defined.

Example:

read{}

// Ethnio survey code removed