Report view

Introduction
The Report view is a panel that shows text messages from FreeCAD processes. It is available in the menu View → Panels → Report View.

Certain properties of the view, like color of the text and whether to display it automatically (as of version 0.19) on warnings or errors, can be configured in the Output Window tab of the preferences editor.



Messages
Console API, and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

The report view displays messages from the internal FreeCAD class.
 * , print any sort of informative message, that doesn't imply any misbehavior; for example, print the coordinates of points, the result of a distance calculation, the number of vertices in a shape, etc. By default, in black color.
 * , print messages that are intended to warn the user about strange behavior in the application. Warnings should be shown when some functionality is missing but the software still works acceptably. By default, in yellow color.
 * , print messages that are intended to be error messages, that is, when a critical component is missing that makes a certain operation fail. By default, in red color.
 * , print messages that are going into the logs. These messages could be anything that is valuable to troubleshoot a problem in the future by reading the logs, for example, starting or closing a workbench. By default, in blue color.

These functions can be used from the Python console directly, or from macros and custom workbenches.



Actions
Right click on the report view shows some commands:
 * : logging, warning, error, redirect Python output, redirect Python errors, go to end.
 * : stores the selected text in the clipboard for later pasting; it is disabled if nothing is selected.
 * : selects all text in the report view.
 * : erases all messages in the report view. This is useful if you want to troubleshoot a tool that prints messages to the report view, and want to be sure there are no old messages from previous tools.
 * : save the messages in the report view to a text file.