Hi, I've been doing stuff with outbound and cannot find the error/warning/message that appears in the normal Baan(5c) session whinh2520m000 when trying to direct release

The test data has a (valid) error reporting a shortage:
"advice shortage of XXqty for item YY"

having marked the line - I then run:
|direct release
stpapi.form.command( "whinh2520m000", 5, "exec.user.5", error )
if error = "" then |if error not produced by form.command above...
error=( stpapi.get.error( ) )
endif
if error <> "" then
message("direls error " & error)
stpapi.end.session( "whinh2520m000" , error )
endif
the command works if there is stock, but if there's a shortage I can't see the warning message. I have got round this by checking ship qty afterwards - but would be better to see the Baan error produced. I've never had to use stpapi.get.error before - is this the correct way of using it? thanks

Right after the form command try using the stpapi.get.mess command. At least that is what I think it is. This should get you any warning messages. I do not recall ever using stpapi.get.error. Not sure of the format of the stpapi.get.mess or maybe it is stpapi.get.mess.code. Well good luck!

thanks for the quick reply - I tried stpapi.get.mess.code as well - but that didn't produce anything either! See error message attached, not sure whether its an 'error' or 'message' ?

It is a warning message. Did you try it write after the form command? You may also need to run it more than once - I doubt this but it was in the documentation. You may not actually get the warning in the api commands - seems to me that happened once to me. If you had source you can debug why the message is not returned. Good luck - on vacation for a week.