Where Is Console.WriteLine Written To

[RayKelly]

I am debugging some business rules.  I would like to add a Console.WriteLine, but I am not sure where that gets written to.  I would like to avoid clogging up "Error Logs" and a simple MsgBox is not enough.

Any suggestions on where to look?

Thank you.

[kenostrovsky]

Hello Ray, 

I also find multiple Error Log entries difficult to navigate for debugging purposes. 

What I do is declare a class variable that I write all of my log information to from all of the functions and then do a single write to the error log to see the results of the execution. I also add the same BRApi.ErrorLog.LogMessage() statement to  the "Catch" clause. 

Public log As New Text.StringBuilder

Try

some BR for-loop

     log.appendline( "message")

end loop

BRApi.ErrorLog.LogMessage(si, log.ToString)

Catch ex As Exception
' In case of execution error see what has collected in the log so far.  

    BRApi.ErrorLog.LogMessage(si, log.ToString)
     Throw ErrorHandler.LogWrite(si, New XFException(si, ex))
End Try

[Big_Rick_CPM]

To see any logged messaged, you need to have access to the 'System' tab. From there you can find the information in the System>Logging>Error Log. One quick note... make sure you remember to remove any error logging after testing is complete so there is not a performance issues. 

Below is the method used:

brapi.ErrorLog.LogMessage(si, "I am logging a message")

[chul]

If you're debugging a finance rule or member formula, be sure to use the api equivalent, api.logmessage.