Common errors

Here is showing a list of common errors that a user might encounter while creating a BCO, please see possible solutions below:

1. Description Domain: autogenerated step numbers are incorrect or not in sequential order most times.
   • Solution: Manually change the step numbers starting to 1, 2, 3……
2. Description Domain: manually entered step numbers could be considered as strings during validation, which need to be integers. See the figure below that under TREE VIEW JSON, the step_number is considered as a string instead of an integer.
   
   • Solution: Go to TREE VIEW JSON, scroll down to description_domain section. Click on the green text pad icon, and select int 1. See the figures below.
     
     
3. Description Domain: SHA1_Checksum is not a required field but during validation, empty SHA1_Checksum fields can trigger errors. This error can also happen in I/O domain which has SHA1_Checksum fields.
   • Solution: Go to TREE VIEW JSON, navigate to the parts that show sha1_checksum, hover the mouse over it, then click on the red cross button that appeared to delete the line.
     
4. Execution Domain: Environment Variables are not highlighted in red but it is mandatory to fill out.
   • Solution: fill out Environment Variables as a required field.
5. Error Domain: error message shows up when starting typing in Error Domain.
   • Solution: the error message won't clear until reaches a proper JSON format so a user needs to a proper JSON format is entered.