In the lower right part of the window, there is a series of tabs.
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If you want to extend any of the tabs of some pane, you only need to double-click such a tab. After that, the pane will extend to the size of the whole window. When you double-click it again, it will return to its original size. |
Properties tab
In this tab, you can view and/or edit the component properties. When you click a component, properties (attributes) of the selected component appear in this tab.
Console tab
In this tab, process of reading, unloading, transforming, joining, writing, and loading data can be seen.
By default, Console opens whenever
CloverETL writes to
stdout or stderr to
it.
If you want to change it, you can uncheck any of the two checkboxes that can be found when selecting → , expanding the category and opening the item.
Two checkboxes that control the behavior of Console are the following:
Show when program writes to standard out
Show when program writes to standard error
Note that you can also control the buffer of the characters stored in Console:
There is another checkbox (Limit console output) and two text fields for the buffer of stored characters and the tab width.
Problems tab
In this tab, you can see error messages, warnings, etc. When you expand any of the items, you can see their resources (name of the graph), their paths (path to the graph), their location (name of the component).
Clover - Regex Tester tab
In this tab, you can work with regular expressions. You can paste or type any regular expression into the Regular expression text area. Content assist can be called out by pressing Ctrl+Space in this area. You need paste or type the desired text into the pane below the Regular expression text area. After that, you can compare the expression with the text. You can either evaluate the expression on the fly while you are changing the expression, or you can uncheck the checkbox and compare the expression with the text upon clicking the button. The result will be displayed in the pane on the right. Some options are checked by default. You can also select if you want to the expression in the text, or you want to Split the text according the expression or you want to know whether the text the regular expression completely. You have at your disposal a set of checkboxes. More information about regular expressions and provided options can be found at the following site: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.6.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
Clover - Graph tracking tab
In this tab, you can see a brief description of the graph that run successfully. The names of the components, grouped by phases (with their using time in seconds, their using capacity in percents), status of all components, CPU Time that has been used for them (in seconds), CPU load that has been used for them (in percents), Byte flow and Byte flow peak (in Bytes per second), Record flow and Record flow peak (in records per second), Total bytes processed (in Bytes, Kilobytes, etc.), Total records processed (in records). These properties are displayed in the tab by default.
In addition to them, also User time, Peak CPU, Waiting records and Average waiting records can be displayed. These should be added to those already mentioned by selecting → . Then you need to expand the CloverETL group and select the Tracking item. In the pane, you can see a list of log columns. You can add or remove some of them by clicking the or buttons, respectively. You can also reorder the columns within the Graph tracking tab by clicking the or buttons, respectively.
You can also turn off the tracking of graphs by unchecking the Show tracking during graph run checkbox.
Clover - Log tab
In this tab, you can see the entire log from the process of data parsing that is created after running a graph. There can be a set of logs from more runs of graphs.