SBL-GEN-00171:

Applies to:

Siebel Workflow - Version: 8.1.1 [21112] and later   [Release: V8 and later ]

Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Validation rules that work when called from the UI are not correctly
displaying the error when called from a workflow business service step,
even though the workflow is correctly set up to execute as a runtime
event.

Instead the end user sees the error message "Field 'Error Code' is empty, and is required for Abort step SBL-GEN-00171"

Logging the process via client side logging shows an SBL-GEN-00000
error immediately follwed by errors (SBL-BPR-00162)--(SBL-GEN-65535)

Cause

There was no business object set on the Workflow

Solution

Setting a business object on the workflow resolved the issue.