missing view

[lesouef]

on one of my machines, there is a missing view: the error.log
what could cause this? a missing file? see attached screen grab.

[ROCLASI]

Hi Lesouef,

It should be under the General folder. Is this Servoy 5.x ?
Servoy 4.x didn't have the Error Log view.

[lesouef]

no, this 5, not even an upgraded v4 and yes, I have in my 2nd installation (other PC); this is why I am trying to locate it without re-installing the whole thing.
but I don't think copying the developer folder from one machine to another is a good idea, on top one is xp, the other vista.

[lucidlee]

I notice this thread has gone cold. Unfortunately I'm encountering the same thing with v5.2.1, completely reinstalled from scratch, even to replacing Sybase with PostGreSQL.
This means that the details box is empty whenever a problem occurs.

Details box is empty

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[jcompagner]

that error has nothing to do with a missing view (so this topic)
synchronize (so team stuff) just has some error, maybe something is in the log.

[lucidlee]

that error has nothing to do with a missing view (so this topic)
synchronize (so team stuff) just has some error, maybe something is in the log.

Which log? The error log? That can't be found - there's no access to it through the Eclipse interface!

I thought I was pointing out the fact that not only can't you access the error log via the menu structure, the screenshot shows that the error log seems not to exist at all - else there would be text in the details box.

More importantly, how does one recover access to the error log? Reinstall?

[jcompagner]

Just check the 2 logs that we have:

\servoyinstall\application_server\servoy_log.txt

and

\yourworkspacelocation\.metadata\.log

(they both start with . so are something not by default visible!)

[lesouef]

note that in the original problem, I have the log files present, and but the view is definitly gone, even after an update to 5.2.1. I have given up the problem as this is not my main machine, but this eclipse thing is a spider's web, you never get it clean, it's a bit like this cheatsheet error at startup, present for ages...

[lucidlee]

note that in the original problem, I have the log files present, and but the view is definitly gone, even after an update to 5.2.1. I have given up the problem as this is not my main machine, but this eclipse thing is a spider's web, you never get it clean, it's a bit like this cheatsheet error at startup, present for ages...

I have to agree. The logs are present, the error view is missing and this eclipse thing is a sticky web of terror.

I've been trying for 10 months to produce anything past a basic rework of the crm solution and at every turn I encounter problems just getting started.

It's not Servoy's fault of course, which is terrific. I'm just a terrible, slow learner, using Mac OSX.

I could have stayed with Helix RADE of course, where the terra is firmer, but then the experience would have been unsettling in a different way.

[jcompagner]

ok this missing view is because the plugin that contributes this view:

org.eclipse.ui.views.log

is not installed in the 5.2 installer

(if you upgraded through the update manager you still would have that plugin because it did came with 5.1 installer)

there is just no dependency on that plugin so it is not packaged at all.
Will see if i can change this.

EDIT: i just checked it and that plugin is contributed by the PDE (Plugin Development Environment) in eclipse and yes we dont include or depend on that at all so thats why it is not coming into the installer.

[lesouef]

so, how could I have it on 2 machines and not on the 3rd (the older on top)? I would have jumped from 5.0 to 5.2? I don't remember now...

[jcompagner]

the one that still has the error view where upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2 instead of a new install.