Workflow 500 Error from Object of class Link2 could not be converted to string in data/SugarBean.php on line 4528

sieberta · 23 June 2020 13:40

In 2018, i upgraded from an older version of SuiteCRM to 7.10.10. One of the issues I identified was an HTTP 500 error in workflow, in some instances, that was a result of the code used to support project templates. I don’t use project templates, BTW.

I had added some code to determine if it was a string, which got rid of the error. Of course, 2 years later applying upgrades again, this broke again.

I beleive, as far as SuiteCRM users go, we use Projects more than most folks, so I’m not sure if this is some sort of bug or a result of upgrades/changes/modifications.

What I had to do was change this:

    if ($current_template_id != $new_template_id) {
        $project_start = $focus->estimated_start_date;

to this:

            if (((is_object($new_template_id) && method_exists($new_template_id, '__toString')) || is_string($new_template_id)) && $current_template_id != $new_template_id) {
        $project_start = $focus->estimated_start_date;

If anyone knows what is up here, feel free to let me know.

chrisdent · 18 March 2021 03:18

Hello!

To which page you applied the change?

pgr · 18 March 2021 10:07

A quick code search turns up this place:

github.com

salesagility/SuiteCRM/blob/master/modules/Project/Project.php#L480


    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
}
///////////////////////////////
// Code Block to handle the template selection at project edit.
////////////////////////////////////////
if ($current_template_id != $new_template_id) {
    $project_start = $focus->estimated_start_date;
    //Get project start date
    if ($project_start!='') {
        $dateformat = $current_user->getPreference('datef');
        $startdate = DateTime::createFromFormat($dateformat, $project_start);
        if ($startdate == false) {
            $startdate = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $project_start);
        }
        $start = $startdate->format('Y-m-d');
    }

chrisdent · 18 March 2021 14:39

Didn’t work for me. =(

pgr · 18 March 2021 14:57

If you have an error 500, you should be checking your PHP log to see what it is.

That is the log defined in the error_log directive in your php.ini.