Events Setup Dialog

Basic mode allows you to set up filters using event severity and category as criteria.  Basic mode is powerful enough to solve most needs.  A description of the controls follows.

• Enable: Check this box to enable the selected event target.  When enabled event notifications will be sent by the target using the defined filter criteria.

Event Selection

• Severity: Select if you want to be notified of Errors only, Errors and Warnings only or Errors, Warnings and Information.

• Category: Select which event categories you wish to recieve notification for.  You may select any combination of the Printer, Job, Computer, Database and Inventory categories.

• Advanced: Click this button if you wish to use the Advanced mode to set up filter criteria.

Advanced mode allows you to create complex filters by creating individual filter criteria and combining them into groups.

A criteria is the basic building block of a filter. A criteria tests one condition. For example, "Severity <<Is Equal>> Warning, Error" would be true if the event had a severity of Warning or Error. And "Printer Location <<Contains>> Assembly Line" would be true for events that occured on a printer whose location contained the phrase "Assembly Line".

A group is a logical grouping of filter elements. Those elements can include both criteria and other groups. A group can be either an And group or an Or group. In an And group all of the filter criteria or groups must evaluate to true for an event for it to pass the group. In an Or group an event will pass the group if any one of its filter criteria or groups evaluate to true for the event. Groups may be nested as deeply as required to build your desired filter.

The controls for Advanced mode are described below.

• Enable: Check this box to enable the selected event target.  When enabled event notifications will be sent by the target if they pass the filter defined in the Event Selection Criteria control.

• Event Selection Criteria: This control displays a tree view of the filter criteria and their grouping. A context menu (described below) is available to create new groups and filter criteria and to edit and delete existing groups and criteria.

• Basic: Click this button if you wish to use Basic mode to set up filter criteria.  If the current Advanced filter is too complex to be represented in Basic mode, this button will be disabled.