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The Events pane provides a view of the recent event history. Printer Maestro tracks all events that affect computers, printers, print jobs, and inventory items for the whole system. Use the Events pane to group events based on severity, so that you can easily access messages that are relevant to you.
You can set an upper limit on the number of recent events that are displayed. To do this, use the Recent Events Displayed control on the General tab of the User Preferences dialog. The default limit is one thousand records.
The messages that Printer Maestro detects have the following severity levels:
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Errors: Specifies an event that prevents applications in the BarTender Suite from running a print job. Error conditions must be resolved before you can continue to print a document or export a document to a printer code template.
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Warnings: Specifies that the print output might not be as expected. It is not mandatory to resolve warnings before you print or export a document.
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Information: Specifies an event that does not affect the printer output.
You can show or hide messages according to their severity level by clicking the Errors, Warnings, and Messages buttons at the top of the Events pane.
When Printer Maestro detects an event, it stores information about the event as fields in its database. You can view this information by adding or removing columns in the Events pane. The following information is available.
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Description
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Message
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Displays the text message that is associated with the event. This field is required and is included in the default view.
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Time
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Displays the date and time when the event occurred.
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Category
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Displays the event's category. Options include Computer, Printer, Job, Inventory, and Database.
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Computer
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Displays the name of the computer on which the event was generated.
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Printer
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Displays the printer on which the event occurred.
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You can right-click various locations in the pane to display a context menu. The options in the menu vary depending on the pane element that you clicked, as follows:
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When you right-click a column header, the menu displays a list of the columns that are available to add or remove from the pane. For more information, refer to Working with Columns.
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When you right-click the pane's title bar or in a blank area of the pane when no rows are selected, the menu displays the following options:
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Clear Events: Removes all event information from the pane.
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View: When you point to this option, a menu is displayed that you can use to change view settings for the pane and to print the contents of the pane.
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Fields: When you point to this option, a list of available column headers is displayed that you can use to add or remove columns from the pane.
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Group By: When you point to this option, a menu is displayed that you can use to change how the rows are grouped.
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Collapse All Groups: Collapses all groups. Available when groups are used and one or more groups are expanded.
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Expand All Groups: Expands all groups. Available when groups are used and one or more groups are collapsed.
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When you right-click an event, the menu displays the following option:
You can hide the pane by using one of the following methods:
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On the View menu, click the name of the pane.
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In the top right corner of the pane, click the 
icon.
To close the pane, click the 
icon in the top right corner of the pane.
Viewing the Available Fields