Common Functionality User Guide
Getting Started : Messages Window
Messages Window
The Messages Window displays user and system messages created by the application including alerts and errors.
The message window consists of two tabs.
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User
•
System
The status bar below the message window also displays the last message shown.
Clicking Messages in the status bar, toggles the message window On and Off. Closing the message window will clear the last message in the status bar.
Note:
The Message Window is Read Only.
User
User messages are displayed in a grid format with a Type, Time and Description column.
 
Type
Can be a message, warning or error and are shown as green, amber and red traffic lights in both the grid and the status panel.
Time
Displays the time when the message, warning or error occurred.
Description
Gives a description of the message, warning or error.
Right-clicking in the grid displays a menu, allowing the entries to be sorted, grouped or filtered.
Selected messages can copied, cleared, printed or exported to Excel. Clicking Find, displays a Find tab which allows the user to search for text within the Description Column.
System
System messages appear in a text box. These are messages or trace created by the application of no particular type or output from the SYSCOM command. The last system message is also shown in the status panel.
Right-clicking in the text box displays menu allowing the user to copy the text and paste it into a different application, or clear the contents of the text box.
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