How to suppress the console XML log

Hi Raj,

As best I can tell, you have fixed it. Thank you very much. This was a serious usability issue.

Russ

Scott, thanks for the moral support. It really is a big productivity issue. It's so ridiculous that such a thing was implemented in an advanced, high-end application to make everything else seem unusable. The error messaging is good... it's the non-error messaging that just makes no sense. Anyway, in lieu of a fix, I wrote a script that warns me of certain errors that might appear, so I can just tuck the pod away but not miss the important stuff. It is so silly that I have to do this.

var activeDoc;

InitializeNotifications();

//Examines the console pod for keywords to alert
//if there was an error with an XML action.
//This is a workaround to the inability to suppress
//non-error messages from popping up the console.
//With this function as a sentry, you can hide the pod
//out of the way but still be alerted to error messages.
function HandleConsoleXmlLog()
{
    var error = false;
    
    //these are the strings/keywords to use to detect an error
    var keywords = new Array(0);
    keywords.push("error");
    keywords.push("invalid");
    keywords.push("xsl transformation not applied");

    var consoleText = app.FMConsoleString;
    
    if(consoleText == "") return;
    
    for(var i = 0; i < keywords.length; i++)
    {
        if(consoleText.toLowerCase().indexOf(keywords.toLowerCase()) > -1)

        {
            error = true;
            i = keywords.length;
        }
    }

    //One fallback... we really want to see the "transformation successful" message.
    if(consoleText.toLowerCase().indexOf("transformation successful") < 0) error = true;
    
    //If an error, report.
    if(error) alert("The XML action appears to have generated an error. The message "
        + "reported to the console was:\n\n"
        + consoleText);
        
    //We always clear the console then.
    app.FMConsoleString = -1;
    
    //Make sure we've returned focus to the active document.
    app.ActiveDoc = activeDoc;
    activeDoc.IsInFront = true;

}
    
function InitializeCmdsAndNotifications()
{
    Notification(Constants.FA_Note_PostOpenXML , true);
    Notification(Constants.FA_Note_PreSaveXML , true);
    Notification(Constants.FA_Note_PostSaveXML , true);
}


//Notifications
function Notify(note, object, sparam, iparam)
{
     switch (note) 
    {
        case Constants.FA_Note_PostOpenXML:
        
            //alert("Opened XML");
            activeDoc = app.ActiveDoc;
            HandleConsoleXmlLog();
                
            break;
  
        case Constants.FA_Note_PreSaveXML:
        
            //alert("Pre saved XML");
            activeDoc = app.ActiveDoc;
                
            break;
  
        case Constants.FA_Note_PostSaveXML:
        
            //alert("Post saved XML");
            HandleConsoleXmlLog();
                
            break;
     }
}