Cascade Administration concept

Common Error Messages

These articles cover specific error messages you may run into while running or working in Cascade CMS. If your exact error isn't listed, search for its text — the full message leads each article's title.

Errors from the search indexer now live in Search and Indexing, alongside the articles for rebuilding indexes and diagnosing missing results.

Index Blocks

The index block renders too much data

An Index Block hitting the configured limit.

Rendering and Velocity

Could not transform with Script format

A PageRenderException from a Velocity or XSLT format.

Comparison method violates its general contract

Sorting on a property some items are missing.

Content and validation

Invalid XML character was found in the element content

A control character pasted into a WYSIWYG field.

The prefix "o" for element "o:p" is not bound

Stray Microsoft Word tags in the source.

Table headers are poorly structured

An accessibility check on table header cell scope.

Login and authentication

Login Failed

Troubleshooting failed login attempts.

Secure LDAP sync fails after upgrade to v8.11

The newer bundled Java rejecting the LDAP certificate.

Workflow

Workflow is required but none is available

A role that can't bypass workflow, with no applicable workflow.

Your roles do not allow you to advance workflow

A role that can't assign or approve workflow steps.

Server and startup

Error constructing implementation

SSL/TLS operations failing to find a valid key store.

Header message of length [] received

The AJP request header exceeding Tomcat's packetSize.

Exception invoking 'getAvailableIDs'

A missing startup parameter.

Parameters missing

A "Parameters missing" error when submitting a page or file.