Brian Dunning's FileMaker Custom Functions

LSErrorDetail

Error Detail for integration with Letterstream api

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Robert D Trammel   Robert D Trammel - Show more from this author
Lucky Penny LLC

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  Sample input:
LSErrorDetail( -1 )
LSErrorDetail( -200 )
  Sample output:
"Needs Attention"
"Successful preauth: Please resubmit authcode to complete order"

  Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

This may be a very niche corner of the market, but I have a customer who utilizes Letterstream to send a lot of physical mail. Their API is available only to customers, and as such the documentation can be difficult to navigate at times. I wrote this custom function in order to return more actionable error detail from failed api calls. Their original HTML table of codes consisted of three columns, Code, Name, and Description. I wrote a little while loop to build this JSON structure for quicker reference.

 

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