topic Re: Test functions in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Test-functions/m-p/403858#M150258 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>'Immediate window' is a <SPAN style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">reminiscence</SPAN> of the VBA, it's a window where I can digit a variable or a function and I can see&nbsp; <SPAN style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">immediately</SPAN> the result.</P><P></P><P>Well, I knew the debug dialog, I didn't know the TRACE statement: I'll try it </P><P></P><P>thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:39:32 GMT andrew001 2012-11-05T20:39:32Z Test functions https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Test-functions/m-p/403856#M150256 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P>what is it the best practice to test the various function into the script ?</P><P>Is there a kind of 'immediate window' or something similar if I want to see how a funcrtion works ?</P><P>thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:46:02 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Test-functions/m-p/403856#M150256 andrew001 2012-11-05T16:46:02Z Re: Test functions https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Test-functions/m-p/403857#M150257 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What is a 'immediate window'? </P><P></P><P>I would start with using the debug dialog (open it from the script editor) and step through the script code.</P><P>Add more variables or TRACE statements to query and display debug information from tables / system.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:00:55 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Test-functions/m-p/403857#M150257 swuehl 2012-11-05T17:00:55Z Re: Test functions https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Test-functions/m-p/403858#M150258 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>'Immediate window' is a <SPAN style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">reminiscence</SPAN> of the VBA, it's a window where I can digit a variable or a function and I can see&nbsp; <SPAN style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">immediately</SPAN> the result.</P><P></P><P>Well, I knew the debug dialog, I didn't know the TRACE statement: I'll try it </P><P></P><P>thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:39:32 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Test-functions/m-p/403858#M150258 andrew001 2012-11-05T20:39:32Z Re: Test functions https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Test-functions/m-p/403859#M150259 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>IMO, the debug dialog is very limited compared to other IDEs.</P><P>Unfortunately, there wasn't much change in the last few major QV versions considering debugging.</P><P></P><P>I agree, it would really benefit from some neat data inspector feature, allowing to see table structure and content while running.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:54:30 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Test-functions/m-p/403859#M150259 swuehl 2012-11-05T21:54:30Z