About Form Sync Messages and Prompts

Messages

Messages are of three types:

• Progress messages report on the progress of the current process and are displayed in the status bar of the Form Sync form.
• Warning messages provide warnings about potential problems and are displayed in dialog boxes.
• Error messages present messages about errors that have taken place in the synchronization process and are displayed in dialog boxes.

You can set the level of detail for progress messages recorded in the log. The default level records main actions only and is recommended for most processes. Note that increasing the level of detail for these messages significantly increases processing time.

For more information, see Log Detail Levels.

After processing is complete, you can read the messages in the log.

For more information, see Viewing the Form Sync Log.

Prompts

Prompts are questions about customizations that cannot be handled automatically during synchronization. You control which customizations generate prompts by setting synchronization options in Form Sync. You can choose to be prompted about:

• Whether to merge or remove a customized form
• Whether to merge or remove a customized global object
• Whether to keep or remove customized event handlers, global scripts, and form scripts

During synchronization, Form Sync keeps track of all prompts and warning messages through an initial analysis of the forms and objects being synchronized.

After the pass through, Form Sync presents these messages to you for your responses. At each of these points, you can decide whether to keep your customizations or discard them. You can also cancel the entire synchronization process at any point in this process, because no actual changes have yet been made.

After you respond to all prompts and warning/error messages, assuming you did not cancel the operation, Form Sync proceeds to make all changes based on your responses.