The first feature example is not working correctly

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I’ve followed the instruction in the given Getting Started page
The Message template yield an error when I’m creating the nonconsuming choice

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What should I do to overcome the issue?

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Hi @Nguyen_Manh_Cuong and welcome to the Daml forum!

The issue here is that you added the choice to the Message template while it should have been added to the User template. The final result should look something like this:

-- MAIN_TEMPLATE_BEGIN
template User with
    username: Party
    following: [Party]
  where
    signatory username
    observer following
-- MAIN_TEMPLATE_END

    key username: Party
    maintainer key

    -- FOLLOW_BEGIN
    nonconsuming choice Follow: ContractId User with
        userToFollow: Party
      controller username
      do
        assertMsg "You cannot follow yourself" (userToFollow /= username)
        assertMsg "You cannot follow the same user twice" (notElem userToFollow following)
        archive self
        create this with following = userToFollow :: following
    -- FOLLOW_END

    nonconsuming choice SendMessage: ContractId Message with
        sender: Party
        content: Text
      controller sender
      do
        assertMsg "Designated user must follow you back to send a message" (elem sender following)
        create Message with sender, receiver = username, content

template Message with
    sender: Party
    receiver: Party
    content: Text
  where
    signatory sender, receiver
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@cocreature Thanks for your answer, I was making the same mistake and your answer solved it for me