Advanced Options - Diagnostics

The Advanced Options - Diagnostics dialog box is one of the pages that appears when you click Advanced options... on the Package attributes pane. It allows you to control which diagnostic messages are produced or suppressed when the configuration is checked or built.

Note: The options in this dialog box apply only to the current package. To set diagnostic message defaults for all future packages, click Save as defaults (see below) or open the Preferences - Diagnostics dialog box (use the Edit > Preferences command). To copy the global defaults to the current configuration, click Load defaults (see below).

For more information and a full list of diagnostic messages, see Diagnostic messages.

Dialog fields and options

The dialog box contains the following fields and options.

Note: you must enable Use configuration-private settings (see below) in order to enable the individual settings.

Field Description
Debug info
Informational
Advisory
Questionable
Unsupported
Warning
Check a box to let InstallMate report messages of the corresponding severity, or clear a box to suppress messages of that severity. You can override this for individual messages by using the Always report or Never report options.
Always report Enter a semicolon-delimited list of message identifiers that must always be reported, even if other messages of their severity are suppressed. You must include both the message category and the message number, for example BLD:Q0096.
Never report Enter a semicolon-delimited list of message identifiers that must never be reported, even if other messages of their severity are enabled. You must include both the message category and the message number, for example BLD:Q0076.
Use configuration-private settings Check this box to use diagnostics settings that are specific to the current package; clear the box to use the global settings from the Preferences - Diagnostics dialog box.
Load defaults Click this button to initialize the dialog's fields from the global defaults as set in the Preferences - Diagnostics dialog box. This copies the global settings; you can then change them independently from the global settings.
Save as defaults Click this button to save the dialog's fields as the global defaults for build diagnostics.