Customisation of the dictionary form can result in generic errors being displayed to users and functionality loss - Support and Troubleshooting

Customisation of the dictionary form can result in generic errors being displayed to users and functionality loss Issue  Symptoms When creating a new field for a table, users can receive a generic error due to fields not being on the form that are expected to be there.

The error: Submit canceled due to a script error - please contact your System Administrator

Release All releases.

Cause This is caused by out of the box scripts if the dictionary form is customised to remove the table name.

This field is assumed to be one the form by the "Dictionary Update Validate" Client Script.

A non-admin user will receive the error as below:

Admins will receive a more meaningful error:

This is caused by the following line of code expecting the "Table" field to be on the form:

Resolution You must ensure the dictionary form layout contains the "Table" field to avoid this issue.

In general, we would not recommend customising the Dictionary form.