adding a try/except to getitem in phase for missing settings

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Codecov Report

Merging #2862 (03a9638) into dev (79e81d6) will decrease coverage by 0.1%. The diff coverage is 100.0%.

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```diff @@ Coverage Diff @@ ## dev #2862 +/- ## ======================================= - Coverage 89.8% 89.8% -0.1% ======================================= Files 148 148 Lines 8624 8627 +3 ======================================= + Hits 7747 7749 +2 - Misses 877 878 +1 ```