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Error Code Maintenance

With the Error Code Maintenance program, you can browse through the list of error files of any environment or workspace and open the files to inspect or change data.

For detailed information on various error messages and how to resolve them, go to the Error Codes help book.

Error Maintenance Desktop

The desktop displays a list of the names of the error tables in the system on the left side. The screen is divided into the following areas:

  • Title/caption bar (showing the tool name plus the name of the workspace)
  • Menu bar
  • Tool bar
  • List of error tables on the left
  • Area with the contents of one error table to the right
  • Status bar

At startup, the tree will be automatically filled with all the possible error tables.

The menus provide organized access to all of the capabilities of the Error Maintenance tool.

Toolbars

The toolbars are organized into three separate toolbars containing many options.

List of Error Tables

On the left side of the desktop, you will find a tree view that shows the list of all possible error tables.

Error Information

On the right side of the desktop, you will find a grid that shows error information from the currently opened error table. This includes the error numbers, descriptions, and notes.

Statusbar

The Statusbar relays information about the current error table and status help.

Hotkeys

Keyboard shortcuts are available throughout the error code maintenance tool. Refer to the hotkeys section for more details.

Launching from the Command Line

You can start the Error Code Maintenance tool with command line arguments. All command line arguments start with a dash followed by a single character (case insensitive) indicating the action to be taken. The order of the arguments (if not conflicting) does not matter. The following arguments are recognized:

Parameter Help

Pass a -h as a command line argument, and the tool shows an information box with all parameters that can be passed.

Workspace Name

Passed as -x. The workspace filename may be either the SWS or the WS filename. Passing the SWS filename results in loading the WS filename from the information read in the SWS file. The full path to the filename must be given. If the workspace filename does not exist, you will be notified with help information about the possible command line flags that you can pass. After that, the last used workspace is used.

If you want to use the tool without a workspace, you can pass the value NOWORKSPACE.

Examples

C:\program files\dataflex\bin\flexerrs.exe -x "C:\DataFlex Examples\order entry\programs\config.ws"
C:\program files\dataflex\bin\flexerrs.exe -x NOWORKSPACE

Note that if the path contains spaces, you need to enclose the whole parameter in double quotes.