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Error Pages

There are generally two types of error reporting as far as the user is concerned: contextual and non-. MIC supports both.

The idea for contextual reporting is that errors are reported where they occurred, or in context. This is accomplished by setting the error page for a particular page to be itself. The page should then be redisplayed with the appropriate error messages in an aesthetically pleasing spot.

Non-contextual error reporting should be reserved for pages that can yield very complex errors and/or dynamic fields.5.2 Realize also that the interface for dynamic error handling is, at the moment largely within the domain of the error packaging object and thus is not all that pretty. It is also outside the scope of this document.5.3