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Use the Debug Information pane to see the current value of any variable in your process or globally,
or to evaluate custom expression. See "The Debug Information pane" on page734.
Use the Object Inspector - one of the panes alongside the Debug Information pane - on the process to
enter sample job information as required.
The Debug ribbon provides the following buttons:
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Click on Skip to ignore the next task or branch and go to the subsequent one. The job file is not
modified in any way.
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Click on View as Text in the Data group of the Debug tab to view the current job file using a text
editor (Notepad by default).
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Click on View as PDF to view the current job file in Adobe Acrobat if it is present (this will work
only for PDF job files).
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Click on View Metadata to open the data selector and see the current state of the process'
Metadata.
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Click on View as Hex to view the current job file in the internal Hex editor.
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Click on the Stop button to stop the debugging process. If you use Run, Step or Skip after stop-
ping the process, debugging starts over from the top.
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Use the Set Breakpoint button to tag the currently selected task, branch or condition as a break-
point. When you click Run in your process, the process will execute every task until it reaches a
breakpoint and will stop just before the task that is set as a breakpoint.
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Use the Ignore button to disable the task, branch or condition that is currently selected. If you dis-
able a branch or condition, all tasks inside that branch or condition are ignored including the out-
put. Note that if you set a task, branch or condition to be ignored, it will also be ignored at run-
time, providing you sent the configuration to the service.
Debugging and Emulation changes
One of the cases where debugging is most useful is whenever the job file is converted to another type
of emulation, or if a new data file of a different emulation is used somewhere in the process. For
example, if a process starts with a Line Printer data file and then converts it into a PDF, it is not possible
to select anything from the PDF to be used as (variable) task property, because the Line Printer emu-
lation is active by default. The debugging features can easily resolve this limitation.
The first method is used if your process has all the required tasks, but data selections after an emu-
lation change are necessary.
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