Debugging with the Tracer tool |
Use the Tracer to test and debug activities, decision rules, service rules, parse rules, and flows. You can see in summary or detail the processing that occurs as you or another requestor executes an activity, declarative rule, or flow rule.
You can pause and resume processing, view or set the value of watch variables, and drill down to step-by-step details. You can view trace events for any requestor connected to your server node, not just your own session.
To start the Tracer tool: SR-3845 B-21096
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PROJ-340Use these controls to set up trace conditions. Click Play () to start the Tracer, or Pause () to stop tracing. Depending on your access role, some Tracer capabilities may not be available to you.
Button |
Function |
Help |
Connection |
Choose a requestor session other than your own. Wait a few seconds until the Tracer connects. |
Selecting a connection |
Options |
Select which RuleSets, rules, and events are to be traced. |
Setting Tracer options |
Breakpoints |
Set or change breakpoints. |
Setting breakpoints |
Watch |
Set or change watch variables |
Setting watch variables |
Save |
Save Tracer output on the workstation as an Excel CSV or XML file. PROJ-504not XML DISPUTED By GENTJ / ALIBJ investigating |
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Abbreviate Events? |
After clicking Play (), select to reduce the amount of clipboard detail retained for each Tracer row. B-12905 |
Tips and notes |
After selecting the connection and setting other options:
At any time tracing is paused, you can change any options using the buttons in the above table. After tracing begins, you can use these buttons:
Button |
Function |
Clear |
Erase the displayed events. |
Pause |
Pause the session being traced at the next possible moment. |
Continue |
Resume processing after a Pause button click, or after a breakpoint event. Appears only after a pause. |
Save |
Save the Tracer results in the current window into a text
file in Comma-Separated-Values format or as a more detailed XML
file, depending on You can open and print the saved CSV file with Microsoft
Excel. (This operation is available only on user workstations
that have installed the |
Tracer tips and notes
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