Exploring the patient custom fields facility, I first (successfully) added "Example Custom Fields" to the lookup for species Dog.

I then tried to create a new patient, immediately I selected Dog in the species pull-down, an internal failure occurred. The text for this is below.

Regards, Tim

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<message>An internal application error has occurred.</message>
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<trace>org.openvpms.web.component.im.layout.AbstractLayoutStrategy.addTab(AbstractLayoutStrategy.java:430)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.app.patient.PatientLayoutStrategy.addTab(PatientLayoutStrategy.java:203)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.app.patient.PatientLayoutStrategy.addCustomFields(PatientLayoutStrategy.java:121)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.app.patient.PatientEditor.updateCustomFields(PatientEditor.java:166)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.app.patient.PatientEditor.speciesChanged(PatientEditor.java:175)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.app.patient.PatientEditor.access$000(PatientEditor.java:56)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.app.patient.PatientEditor$1.modified(PatientEditor.java:89)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.component.property.ModifiableListeners.notifyListeners(ModifiableListeners.java:85)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.component.property.AbstractProperty.refresh(AbstractProperty.java:91)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.component.property.IMObjectProperty.modified(IMObjectProperty.java:510)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.component.property.IMObjectProperty.setValue(IMObjectProperty.java:145)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.component.bound.Binder.setProperty(Binder.java:138)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.component.bound.Binder.setProperty(Binder.java:95)</trace>
<trace>org.openvpms.web.component.bound.SelectFieldBinder$1.stateChanged(SelectFieldBinder.java:66)</trace>
<trace>nextapp.echo2.app.list.DefaultListSelectionModel.fireValueChanged(DefaultListSelectionModel.java:76)</trace>
<trace>nextapp.echo2.app.list.DefaultListSelectionModel.setSelectedIndex(DefaultListSelectionModel.java:151)</trace>
<trace>nextapp.echo2.app.list.AbstractListComponent.processInput(AbstractListComponent.java:374)</trace>
<trace>nextapp.echo2.app.update.ClientUpdateManager.process(ClientUpdateManager.java:110)</trace>
<trace>nextapp.echo2.app.update.UpdateManager.processClientUpdates(UpdateManager.java:89)</trace>
<trace>nextapp.echo2.webcontainer.ContainerSynchronizeService.renderUpdate(ContainerSynchronizeService.java:471)</trace>
<trace>nextapp.echo2.webrender.service.SynchronizeService.service(SynchronizeService.java:279)</trace>
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<trace>org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:109)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:83)</trace>
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<trace>org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.java:78)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:187)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:97)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.java:79)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:149)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.invokeDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:237)</trace>
<trace>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:167)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:859)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:602)</trace>
<trace>org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)</trace>
<trace>java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)</trace>
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