Errors

WYSIWYG sports an “on the fly” error checking engine. This means that as you are putting your lighting design together, WYSIWYG is continually checking for data errors such as multiple dimmers in one circuit, multiple channels in one dimmer, and various missing information.

At any time, you can view the error reports that are available on the Errors shortcut bar. Error reports that have errors displayed will have an exclamation mark (!) after their name. You can edit/fix these errors on the spot; editing data on the error reports works the same way as the data spreadsheets explained in the previous section. As soon as you fix an error in an error spreadsheet, the entries are disabled to show that it has been fixed.

An indicator on the Status bar signals you when your document contains errors. This feature can be turned on or off. WYSIWYG is also set up to trigger an error notification when errors are detected. Error notifications can be turned on or off.

When an error is detected, the shortcut bar will display the shortcut icon with the warning symbol in red color instead of the check symbol in green color.

Errors

WYSIWYG checks for the following errors:

Error	Definition
Dimmers > Circuit	Fixtures assigned to the same circuit have been assigned different dimmer numbers.
Patches > Circuit	Fixtures assigned to the same circuit have been assigned different patch addresses.
Channels > Circuit	Fixtures assigned to the same circuit have been assigned different channel numbers.
Patches > Dimmer	Fixtures assigned to the same dimmer have been assigned different patch addresses.
Channels > Dimmer	Fixtures assigned to the same dimmer have been assigned different channel numbers.
Channels > Patch	Fixtures assigned to the same patch address have been assigned different channel numbers.
Spots > Patch	Fixtures assigned to the same patch address have been assigned different spot numbers.
Missing Position	The position field is empty.
Missing Unit	The unit field is empty.
Missing Circuit Name	The circuit name field is empty.
Missing Circuit #	The circuit number field is empty.
Missing Dimmer	The dimmer field is empty.
Missing Patch	The patch field is empty.
Missing Channel	The channel field is empty.
Missing Spot	The spot field is empty.
Missing Color	The color field is empty.
Missing Gobo	The gobo field is empty.
Missing Purpose	The purpose field is empty.

Error notifications

Error notifications occur when WYSIWYG detects an error for which an error notification trigger has been set.

To set error triggers

From the Options menu, choose Document Options.
Click the Error Tracking tab.

Select the errors for which you want to trigger an error notification and/or signal.
Click OK.

To manage error triggers

When an error notification is triggered, the Data Error Notification dialog box appears:

From this dialog box, you can perform one of the following actions:

Acknowledge the error, and then click OK to close the notification.
Acknowledge the error, and then click Show Me to open a new window that automatically navigates you to the appropriate error report.
Acknowledge the error, and then click Options to reset the error notification triggers as described above.

Error spreadsheet properties

Error spreadsheets may be sorted and modified in a similar manner as other spreadsheet views.

To modify an error sheet

Click the Errors layout tab.
From the Options menu, choose View Options.

Result: The View Options window appears.

For more information on the General, Data Options and Data Error Options tab, see Customizing spreadsheets.

On the Data Error Options tab, set triggers for the error that is displayed in the Name box on the General tab. For more information on triggers, see To set error triggers.