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;
}
}
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