Unknown property error on Standard Controller when creating v-force page … but only for some users

Question

I am getting the following error when creating a v-force page in a standard controller extension:

System.VisualforceException: Unknown property 'Award__cStandardController.awardAmount'

The interesting thing is that 1) I don't have a property named awardAmount at all in the v-force page or elsewhere, and 2) this error is popping up for other users but not for myself. (One of the other users has the exact same permissions/sets as I do and he gets the error but I still don't).

I do use a variable called cashAwardAmount and it is initialized like so:

public Decimal cashAwardAmount {get; set;}

I then set the value like so:

this.cashAwardAmount = currentAward.Cash_Award_Amount__c;

Which I then use in a visualforce page like this:

<apex:outputPanel>
    <apex:outputText value="Total Amount of Award ($): " />
    <apex:outputText value="{0, number, ###,###,##0}">
        <apex:param value="{!cashAwardAmount}"  />
    </apex:outputText>
</apex:outputPanel>

There are 3 visualforce pages that use the same {!cashAwardAmount} variables, but only 2 are failing. However, they all use the same Award__c standard controller and PDFFormCreatorController extension.

The only change we've made recently to the object was to push a validation rule that allows sys admin users to continue editing the record in certain stages.

I've read a lot of the other posts dealing with unknown property errors, but it seems like I'm doing the things that they weren't. I'm completely stumped.

Please let me know if you need more context, code snippets, etc.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Ugh, this is so dumb. Somehow, earlier versions of my v-force pages and controller made it into my IDE but not into the sandbox. Then, when I pushed my controller changes to production, the 2 other VF pages were referencing a variable that was no longer in my controller, thus the unknown property error.

I'm not sure how this happened, but I guess it's a lesson to have a pretty strict workflow as it pertains to proper maintenance/version control of your code.