I am running a workflow with an input parameter that is set to a workspace attribute (CA_PON_MUTECT). I misspelled the attribute name in the workspace attribute definition section, spelling it "CO_PON_MUTECT". When I ran the workflow, it failed as soon as it attempted run the first task that referenced workspace.CA_PON_MUTECT as an input. FireCloud reported a failure, but nothing else. No log files were generated, no error message in the workflow monitor table appeared, and nothing was written to the bucket. I finally did track down my typo that caused the error, but it would have saved me much time if FireCloud had reported the error (e.g., "workspace.CA_PON_MUTECT does not exist"). I believe that these types of user errors will continue to be common until improvements are made to the method config edit page. In the mean time, it would be very helpful to users if errors such as the one I described above are explicitly reported to users.
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