Has anyone ever, anywhere, seen the Apex Exception “Cannot set the value of a calculated field”

And no, if you’re thinking I’m writing to a formula field, that’s not it – read on….

I’ve been seeing this error sporadically during an upsert on one, and only one, org.

Upsert failed. First exception on row 0 with id a1H00000000VR5lEAG; first error: UNKNOWN_EXCEPTION, Cannot set the value of a calculated field: []

I’ve done a search for “Cannot set the value of a calculated field” (in quotes) and, believe it or not, it comes up with just one unrelated response.

And no, it’s not the obvious – I’m not setting the ID, and if you try to update a formula field, you get the error “Field is not writable” which, as you would expect, returns gazillions of hits when searched.

In terms of being sporadic – it might appear once every week or two. So we’re talking maybe one error in >100K upserts on this object. On this one org – nowhere else.

Notice that it doesn’t actually say what field is impacted. And, to add to the confusion – this is an upsert of a custom object in a managed package. There are no triggers or workflows on the object.

I’m very much at a loss – without the ability to reproduce it, contacting SFDC support is likely to be a waste of time. So, if anyone has seen this before and has any suggestions or context to provide, I’d greatly appreciate it.

Dan

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Source : Link , Question Author : kibitzer , Answer Author : pchittum