Author Topic: How do I know when a "Notice" is important? (Read 1703 times)

cscooper · October 26, 2011, 05:58:40 am

I'm brand new to CiviCRM, and I just finished creating some custom field sets and importing contact data from a CSV file, and then I tried creating a report of my contacts.

I got a lot of red Notice lines on screens just in these first few steps, how do I know which of those are important and which I can ignore?

I get things like:
Undefined index: custom in _civicrm_add_formatted_param()
Undefined index: contact_type in _civicrm_add_formatted_param()
Undefined index: section in CRM_Report_Form->orderBy()
Undefined index: street_address in CRM_Import_Parser_Contact->createContact()
Trying to get property of non-object in CRM_Import_Parser_Contact->createContact()
Undefined offset: 0 in CRM_Import_form_MapField->buildQuickForm()

Thanks,
Chris

Hershel · October 26, 2011, 09:22:15 am

An error of "Undefined index" is actually a warning and those are generally safe to ignore. You can report them so we can fix them, but they are not errors per se.

Upperholme · November 15, 2011, 04:47:13 am

Great. Here's a notice when attempting a small data import into a 4.0.6 install:

Notice: Undefined index: in CRM_Import_Form_MapField->postProcess() (line 812 of /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/Form/MapField.php).

Upperholme · November 15, 2011, 05:44:45 am

And when I did the import I got a whole list of more Notices:

One of these:
Notice: Undefined index: prefix_id in _civicrm_add_formatted_param() (line 210 of /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/api/v2/utils.v2.php).

Then one of these:
Notice: Undefined index: 4_a_b in CRM_Import_Parser_Contact->checkRelatedContactFields() (line 1948 of /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/Parser/Contact.php).

Then one of these:
Notice: Undefined index: id in CRM_Import_Parser_Contact->import() (line 828 of /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/Parser/Contact.php).

Followed by lots of these (probably as many as the number of records imported, but I didn't count):
Notice: Undefined index: prefix_id in _civicrm_add_formatted_param() (line 210 of /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/api/v2/utils.v2.php).
Notice: Undefined index: id in CRM_Import_Parser_Contact->import() (line 828 of /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Import/Parser/Contact.php).

The import appears to have worked OK however, but this is the type of thing that scares the pants off newer users.
Hopefully it's already fixed in 4.0.7

sonicthoughts · November 29, 2012, 12:31:17 pm

I have the same error on 4.2

Dave Greenberg · November 29, 2012, 04:32:11 pm

I think most folks configure their production sites so those types of notices are NOT displayed on the screen to users - but are just written to the log file.

Drupal > Administer > Configuration > Logging and Errors - Error Messages to Display field ... "It is recommended that sites running on production environments do not display any errors."

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