Program Execution with Fields Not in the Data Buffer

Under certain conditions, when you access a field that is not in the data buffer, a portion of your PeopleCode program is skipped. The skip occurs when:

• The reference is in the Import Manager.

• The reference is from the FieldDefault or FieldFormula events.

After the call to the invalid field, execution skips to the next top-level statement. Top-level statements are not nested inside other statements. The start of a PeopleCode program is a top-level statement. Nesting begins with the first conditional statement (such as While or If) or the first function call.

For example, if your code is executing in a function and inside an If … then … end-if statement, and it runs into the skip conditions, the next statement executed is the one after the End-if statement, still inside the function.