[Bug]: [E-Document] The system tells that the e-document has been created from a posted document when it was not actually created

[georgepomazkov]

Describe the issue

When manually creating an E-Document from a posted document page via action Related - E-Document - Create, if the system does not create an E-Document it still shows the message 'The e-document has been created.'.

There are cases when the e-document cannot be created due to a configuration error (for example, when a Document Sending Profile is not set up), in which case the system displays the corresponding error message.

However, there is a case when the system fails to create the e-document because the document type is not supported by the E-Document Service (which is configured in E-Document Service Supported Source Document Types), and it does not return an error, but rather just exists with false.

namespace Microsoft.eServices.EDocument;

codeunit 6102 "E-Doc. Export"
{
    procedure CreateEDocument(var EDocument: Record "E-Document"; var DocumentHeader: RecordRef; var EDocumentService: Record "E-Document Service"; EDocumentType: Enum "E-Document Type"): Boolean
    var
        EDocumentLog: Codeunit "E-Document Log";
        SupportedServices: List of [Code[20]];
        Code: Code[20];
    begin
        EDocument.SetRange("Document Record ID", DocumentHeader.RecordId);
        if not EDocument.IsEmpty() then
            exit(false);

        if EDocumentService.FindSet() then
            repeat
                if IsDocumentSupported(EDocumentService, DocumentHeader, EDocumentType) then
                    SupportedServices.Add(EDocumentService.Code);
            until EDocumentService.Next() = 0;

        if SupportedServices.Count() = 0 then
            exit(false);
        ...
    end;
}

Expected behavior

The code in the action to manually create the E-Document from a posted document should check if an e-document has actually been created, and show a message 'Could not create the E-Document' if it was not and there is no explicit exception.

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up an E-Document Service. Do not specify Sales Invoice on the Configure documents to export page.

2. Configure corresponding E-Document Workfow and Document Sending Profile.
3. Open a Posted Sales Invoice card page on a document for which an E-Document has not been created earlier.
4. Click Related - E-Document - Create

5. Verify that the system displays the message 'The e-document has been created.'.

7. Verify that no E-Document has been created for the sales invoice.

Additional context

The suggested approach is not ideal as it will not provide the user with sufficient info on why the e-document could not be created and how to fix it. However, making the system throw when the document type is not supported will most likely break some behavior, and there also might be other reasons for why the e-document cannot created.

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[JesperSchulz]

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