I'm very happy with the new Log Output Properties. I get the impression though that the functionality is somehow reversed. When I enable Hide action from log... It shows up in the Live Log View and it shows up in the Export log. When I open a Build Log from the History & Statistics Tab the Action is missing from that log.
What would be nice is hide the action from the Live Log and Export Log, but not from the Build Log that can be viewed later in FinalBuilder. I just saw the option to Show hidden actions in the logging settings. Would it be possible to have that functionality in the Export Log.
I'll be looking into the Log Fragment functionality. I've been waiting for this since FB3
Hidden actions shouldn’t be in the exported log… fixing this now. I think for now we’ll leave the live logging as it is, as it might seem a bit strange for the build to be running and nothing appearing in the log. And the way that hidden actions work, is that any child actions of the hidden actions are also not included.
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ps. I’d be keen on some feedback on the log fragment stuff if you get around to checking that out
Hey Tate, Didn’t notice the fragment thing until now - looks useful, I must try it out. I would suggest that the single drop down for “export logs from action” really isn’t sufficient though - in a big build I have hundreds of actions, and up to a dozen or more with the same name. It would be much easier if they were sorted by action list first, then by order in the action list, rather than by name. A view like this might be good:
-Main- First action Second action -OnFailure- action group some action etc
Practically speaking as well, IMHO this kind of “export logs from action” is a little backwards. Consider that you can “log to variable” on any action, it might work better to extend that mechanism (“Log to variable as XML/HTML”), then the user can save that text to a file whenever they want.
Of course, if/when you can tag actions somehow, it could be extremely useful to “export logs for all actions with X”.