Logging and email
Every CtrlDocs application logs through the same component, and sends mail through the same component, because both come from the M-Files Vault Application Framework rather than from the application itself. The 124 settings below are identical in all of them, so they are documented here once instead of in each product.
Find these in M-Files Admin under the vault's Applications node, in the product's own configuration, under Logging.
What to turn on first
Logging is off until it is configured, and an application with no log is an application whose failures can only be guessed at. On a new installation:
- Enable the logging configuration, then enable the default target.
- Leave the level at its default. Raise it to
Debugonly while investigating something — debug logging on a busy vault produces a great deal of output. - Add a file target if the log needs to outlive the M-Files server's own event log, which is pruned.
Mail settings are only needed by the features that send mail. An application that sends none can leave them empty.
In every application
In some applications
These are carried by the framework components only some applications use — the scheduling types appear where there is a recurring operation to schedule, and the rest where a feature other than logging sends mail. Each says which applications have it.