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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By : Ricardo Pereira
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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By: Ricardo Pereira

Overview of this book

OutSystems is a software development platform that speeds up the build phase by abstracting code and making almost everything visual. This means replacing textual language with visual artifacts that avoid lexical errors and speed up code composition using accelerators and predefined templates. The book begins by walking you through the fundamentals of the technology, along with a general overview of end-to-end web and mobile software development. You'll learn how to configure your personal area in the cloud and use the OutSystems IDE to connect with it. The book then shows you how to build a web application based on the best architectural and developmental practices in the market, and takes the same approach for the mobile paradigm. As you advance, you'll find out how to develop the same application, and the great potential of reusing code from one paradigm in another and the symbiosis between them is showcased.The only application that'll differ from the application in the exercise is the one used in business process technology (BPT), with a focus on a common market use case. By the end of this OutSystems book, you'll be able to develop enterprise-level applications on the web and mobile, integrating them with third parties and other systems on the market. You'll also understand the concepts of performance, security, and software construction and be able to apply them effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: OutSystems 101
5
Section 2: The Magical Path of the Backend
10
Section 3: Create Value and Innovate with the Frontend
16
Section 4: Extensibility and Complexity of the OutSystems Platform

Monitoring Processes and Timers

The monitoring of asynchronous tools, like all other tools, is done in Service Center. All logs are recorded in the database and can be searched in the Service Center window related to the type of tool in question.

To monitor the Timer logs, we open Service Center, and in the Monitoring tab, click on Timers:

Figure 15.21 – The Timers monitoring tab in Service Center

In this tab, we can find out the following:

  • The date and time the log was created
  • The expected date and time when the Timer should have executed
  • The module the Timer belongs to
  • Which Timer was executed
  • Timer run duration
  • The scheduled date and time for the next run
  • Which frontend server the Timer was run on

We can also find useful information regarding Timers in the Environment Health tab in the Monitoring section:

Figure 15.22 – Timer monitoring info in the Environment Health tab

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