About diagnostics

The Diagnostics window and the Mongoose Trace window are used to view messages and operations in the current session on the client machine.

Messages are captured and displayed in real time and can be filtered, searched, and saved to a file.

Diagnostics window

IDO messages can be viewed in Log Monitor in conjunction with the Diagnostics window.

On the Log Messages tab, the types of messages displayed depend on the options selected on the View > User Preferences > Diagnostics tab.

On the Console tab, you can submit expressions to be evaluated by the Mongoose Parsing Utility.

See Substitution keywords.

Mongoose Trace window

In the Mongoose Trace window, or the Trace Viewer > Logs tab in the web client, the messages are displayed in tree view. This window contains nested and timing information.

Compared to the Diagnostics window, the information is simpler and easier to understand. The information is not affected by the settings of the View > User Preferences > Diagnostics tab.

Note: Trace information is session-specific.

In the Trace Viewer, you can use the Variables tab to view variables created or maintained by Mongoose runtime and referenced by forms.

Variable traces are also formatted in tree view and can be filtered for a specific variable name.

Note: The Variables tab is only accessible by a Full User, a Site Developer, or a Super User.