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# Common Issues

This section details some common issues that may be encountered.
You can use this as a checklist when you are new to the `AutoText` component .

- The IDs do not match in the HTML and JavaScript or either code item has not been written.
- The user has either specified the name of the entity incorrectly or has mistakenly used the alias.
- The entity is not a single value - i.e. not a scalar or a parameter data type.
- The call to `view.start()` was never made.
- Earlier errors in the JavaScript cause the code not to run.
- The entity is a result value and t here are no results present in the scenario.
- The `AutoText` component is working properly but the entity value is empty or a non-displaying character such as an empty string.

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