null [null] on the field phaseName of form hoursNotYetBilled?

[Dale E. Moore]

Using "Release-revision : release12.04-1388834" demo data DemoEmployee2 completed their timesheet. Admin went to Billing on that project and got this error

org.ofbiz.widget.screen.ScreenRenderException: Error rendering screen [component://common/widget/CommonScreens.xml#GlobalDecorator]: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Return value from use-when condition eval was not a Boolean: null [null] on the field phaseName of form hoursNotYetBilled (Return value from use-when condition eval was not a Boolean: null [null] on the field phaseName of form hoursNotYetBilled)

at https://localhost:8443/projectmgr/control/projectBilling?projectId=9000

I found specialpurpose/projectmgr/widget/form/ProjectForms.xml contains

<field name="phaseName" position="1" use-when="showPosition1"><display description="${phaseName}[${phaseId}]"/></field>

and changed it to

<field name="phaseName" position="1" use-when="showPosition1!=null"><display description="${phaseName}[${phaseId}]"/></field>

but https://localhost:8443/projectmgr/control/projectBilling?projectId=9000 now gives me

org.ofbiz.widget.screen.ScreenRenderException: Error rendering screen [component://common/widget/CommonScreens.xml#GlobalDecorator]: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Return value from use-when condition eval was not a Boolean: null [null] on the field workEffortName of form hoursNotYetBilled (Return value from use-when condition eval was not a Boolean: null [null] on the field workEffortName of form hoursNotYetBilled)

It appears to me that I've created a data error and I'm unsure what to do to correct the error.

Since it's now Monday DemoEmployee2 has a new timesheet and has started entering hours, but; Admin still gets the same error at Billing.

How can I correct my error and how can I avoid this error in the future?

[Dale E. Moore]

I wonder if I would be better off using some other branch? Perhaps Project Manager in other branches has fewer bugs? Like https://demo-stable.ofbiz.apache.org/projectmgr (release10.04-1393192) as DemoEmployee2 gets (org.ofbiz.widget.screen.ScreenRenderException: Error rendering screen [component://common/widget/CommonScreens.xml#GlobalDecorator]: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error running Groovy script at location [component://projectmgr/webapp/projectmgr/WEB-INF/actions/ListCurrentProjects.groovy]: org.ofbiz.service.ServiceAuthException: You have no access to the project#: 9100 (Error running Groovy script at location [component://projectmgr/webapp/projectmgr/WEB-INF/actions/ListCurrentProjects.groovy]: org.ofbiz.service.ServiceAuthException: You have no access to the project#: 9100))

[Dale E. Moore]

And :ERROR MESSAGE:
org.ofbiz.widget.screen.ScreenRenderException: Error rendering screen [component://common/widget/CommonScreens.xml#GlobalDecorator]: java.lang.NullPointerException (null) from DemoEmployee2, My Portal, Preferences in https://demo-stable.ofbiz.apache.org/projectmgr (release10.04-1393192).

[Dale E. Moore]

Hmmm... 10.04 stable does not encounter some of those errors.

But I'm getting the undocumented "No timeentry items found".

Perhaps http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg25087.html and https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBENDUSER/OFBiz+in+a+service+and+project+oriented+company will help.

[Dale E. Moore]

Thanks to Ruth and Hans those were helpful. I was able to generate invoices by setting the date correctly in the Project Billing screen.

[Dale E. Moore]

Hmmm, the thing that I skipped over in this thread was that I went back to 11.04 where I do not experience the bug. Trying 12.04 again experiences the same issue. I'll enter a https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ.