About diagnostics

The Diagnostics window and the Trace Viewer 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 Diagnostics tab of the User Preferences dialog box.

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

See Substitution keywords.

Trace window

In the Logs tab of the Trace Viewer dialog box (in the web client) or the Mongoose Trace dialog box (of the Windows 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 Diagnostics tab under User Preferences.

Note: Trace information is session-specific.

In the Trace window, you can use the Variables tab to view variables created or maintained by 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 users with Full User, Site Developer, Super User editing permissions.