Log View
The Log view is designed to display information on the events taking place during the program execution. The larger part of this information consists of events generated by the operations and the operations results.
The Log view is located by default at the bottom of the MSI Package Builder main window and displays the log in form of a tree Pic 1. The description for any logged event is by default wrapped, so that you can easily read it. If you would like to have more events visible at the same time, you can configure the Log view to display only one line per event by disabling the Wrap Text option from the Configuration menu.
Every event in the Log is assigned a severity level represented by a certain icon. The icon allows you to see if the operation has finished successfully without reading the description. The following icons are available:
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the blue icon with an 'i' character means that everything is OK; |
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the brown circle icon with a cross-cut line is used to identify that the task was canceled by user or due to shutdown of the underlying system; |
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the yellow icon with an exclamation mark is the warning sign: it tells you that some errors have occurred, but they are not critical. In such a case, there is no guarantee that the operation has actually succeeded; |
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the red icon with a white cross is the error sign: it means that the operation execution has failed. |
Analyzing the Log can help you a lot in your everyday work with MSI Package Builder, because this log contains all the information on the executed operations and provides you with troubleshooting recommendations in case any problems are detected.
Functions Overview
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The Export All button should be used to export the log to the CSV file. |
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The Clear button should be used to remove all the logged events from the program. |
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The Full Expand button from the Log view toolbar should be used to expand all nodes in the table of logged events. |
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The Full Collapse button from the Log view toolbar should be used to collapse all nodes in the table of logged events. |
The options of clearing the log, expanding nodes in the tree of logged events and collapsing them are also available from the pop-up menu of the Log tree Pic 1. The layout of the Log view, including the visible columns, the column widths, the sorting settings and the text wrapping, is saved between sessions.