Messages
Use
In the
Messages
screen area, the system displays information, warnings, error messages and fatal errors. It also displays all messages generated in the Repository Explorer. Each message type is flagged with the relevant icon.
Features
The following details are also displayed for each message:
The
description
indicates the content of the message.The
resource type
indicates whether the message refers to a learning net, a learning object, an instructional element or a reference.The
resource
specifies the name of the object to which the message refers.
Activities
You can perform the following actions in the
Messages
screen area:
Process messages
When you click this icon, you branch to the wizard for message processing. This wizard helps you to correct errors in each of the structural elements: learning nets, learning objects, instructional elements, and test elements. It guides you step-by-step through each message. The wizard displays a dialog box for each resource containing the field that needs to be edited. You can enter missing data and edit data specifically as required. To skip a message, choose
Continue
. You can interrupt editing once you have completed a message and resume editing at any time.Refresh messages
Click this icon to refresh the message display, for example, if you closed the message display and opened it again.
Delete messages
Click this icon to delete all of the messages displayed. Messages about learning nets, learning objects and instructional and test elements are only deleted from the current display. When you refresh the display, they are visible again. Messages from the Repository Explorer are actually deleted and are no longer visible when you refresh the display.
Close message display
Click this icon to close the message display completely. To re-open it, choose
View ->Display Messages
.
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