Output Dialog

The Output dialog is used to display tool output parameters and output files.

Although tool messages could be passed to AWM as output parameters or output files, it is recommended to pass messages to AWM using the specific message support. This can be supported by specific tools only and cannot be modeled. See Messages for more information.

The tool outputs to be displayed are specified by the To Output Dialog attribute, which is set by preceding tools during the modeling of the output parameters. See Relationship: Tool Has Output Parameter for more information.

The number of dialog box fields depends on the tool descriptors of an action. It is therefore possible to create only one Open Modeled Dialog tool with the attribut Output Dialog, which can be used for all action descriptors. This tool must be referenced as the last tool descriptor of an action descriptor if it is to display all the desired outputs at the end of the action.

Note: If a previous tool within an action has a return code higher than the maximum allowed return code, the action is stopped and an error message dialog box is displayed, but a modeled output dialog is not displayed. This is why it is not recommended to pass tool error messages to an output dialog.