Troubleshooting Guide

Overview

This document provides a comprehensive guide to common error types that can be thrown by IBM Envizi - Emissions Calculations in Excel, along with troubleshooting steps to resolve them.


Table of Contents

  1. Plugin Specific Errors

  2. Errors Thrown from SDK Calls


Plugin Specific Errors

Value Not Available Error

#NA gets populated in the cell after calling the ENVIZI excel function

Causes:

  • Authentication to the IBM Envizi Emission API not done before calling the function to calculate errros

Troubleshooting Steps:

  • Fill in the API key, Tenant ID and Org ID and then click on Login to authenticate.

  • Call the appropriate Envizi function

Invalid credentials Error

Causes:

Account Credentials entered is incorrect

Troubleshooting Steps:

  • Make sure the API Key, Tenant ID and Org ID are copied appropriately from the Overview Dashboard into the ‘Account credentials’ section within the Excel template

  • Save credentials and Login

Alert in case of invalid cell values

An alert popup that says ‘This value doesn’t match the data validation restrictions defined for this cell.’

Causes:

Unaccepted values populated in the cells used to make calculation

Troubleshooting Steps:

Refer to the dropdown and choose only one of the accepted and valid values for the specific cell

Errors Thrown from SDK Calls

Error in Value

#VALUE! gets populated in the cell after calling the ENVIZI function

Causes:

  • Invalid data type could be set

  • Invalid location (country and/or state province is wrongly set)

  • Invalid unit is set

Troubleshooting Steps:

  • Hover over the yellow exclamation mark that appears next to ‘#VALUE!’ to understand the actual error that is causing the issue

  • Make sure to check that each field is validated correctly before making the call