LogUserMessage - Where are they written? How do I read them?

Stephen Cena

I'm trying to use Infor's logging capabilities to speed up development. I have this line of code in an IDO Extension Class/IDO Custom Assembly:

IDORuntime.LogUserMessage("Cena",
                                                  UserDefinedMessageType.UserDefined0,
                                                  "Six times Nine is {0}",
                                                  42);

The code doesn't appear to be failing, but I can't seem to find where on the servers/system these get stored.

Please help!

Legacy Contributor

If you are debugging locally, it would show up in the IDO Development Runtime log. If running on SaaS, you won't be able to see it. The solution is to make use of the Infobar return parameter in your IDO Methods. Messages passed back through that parameter will show up in the form Diagnostics window. If you create a class level variable of type StringBuilder for example, you can keep appending debug messages to it at various places in your code logic, then assign, via variableName.ToString() the accumulated debug messages to the Infobar parameter and you will get essentially a trace log up until the point where there was an exception in your code. The key is to assign the stored messages to Infobar in each try/catch block and again at the very end of your IDO Method. If your procedure succeeds, you'll get the whole trace log, if not, you will get a partial log up until where the code failed. You need to make sure in the form event where you call the IDO Method, that you set the Error Message parameter to "mBackEndMessage". You also need to enable the General - Enabled and Call Details - IDO Method options under the Diagnostics configuration in User Preferences.