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Show error message when form can't be exported to XML
It's possible to get into a state where forms can't be exported to XML but no error shows either in the user interface or on the console. I'm experiencing this right now with a form that uses range with the different appearances and I have no idea where the problem is. It would be helpful to get some kind of feedback when that happens.
(update: in this particular case the issue was that I had saved the form before the fix for defaults. I've run into this a couple of times when verifying new features, though so I still think it'd be useful.)
I'm not sure what this ticket's action item is; it seems we should be filing bugs when problems occur and then we can chase each one down?
Instead of failing silently, do you have any information at all that can be shown to the user when the XML can't be generated?
Not really. Even a stack trace doesn't contain enough information for me to trace through oftentimes.
Though I'm not sure why you wouldn't be seeing anything in the console. That shouldn't be possible, and sounds very fishy.