When saving a Deluge Script that has certain syntactical errors the system says "Updating Script...." and will sit forever in this state. The script will never be updated and no error will ever appear. The only way to resolve the issue is to refresh the screen and enter the script again. Because there is no error reporting you have to find the error on your own. Of course this is less than ideal and could make life difficult for coders new to Deluge syntax. I believe this error is fairly new and in the recent past the syntactical errors would have generated some sort of message.

 

Recently, I have seen this behavior in a few cases. Mostly it seems due to a data type inconsistency in a script. For example (where Client.Status is a text field and Office.Door_width is a decimal field):  if ((Client[ID = input.Client].Status=  "Test")  &&  (Office[ID = input.Client].Door_width <  "36")) will cause the endless "Updating Script" message to appear when the script is saved. An error message highlighting this syntactical error is expected but never appears. Of course simply removing the quotes from the number 36 will solve the problem and the script can be saved successfully.

 

If I find other syntactical errors that cause this problem I will document them.

 

John