Notes tab

The thread Notes tab shows user-added notes.

In the Network Configurator, thread notes are added through the Notes tab.This tab contains a text area that is used to add notes for a thread.

A visual indicator on the thread icon tells you that there is a note for that thread.

Process notes are added through the Network Configurator’s Process Configuration dialog box.

Note: The Notes file lock respects the lock for the NetConfig file. For the revision function in the NetConfig file, the Notes file does not have revision. So, there are no notes for the revision NetConfig file. Because of this, if the revision NetConfig file is selected, there is no Notes tab on the Thread Properties dialog box or the Process Configuration dialog box.

Viewing notes in Network Monitor

Notes can be viewed in Network Monitor. The Network Monitor’s Notes dialog box shows the notes for the selected process or thread.

To view the thread or process notes in the Network Monitor, select the appropriate Notes menu item. This is accessed by right-clicking the thread or process.

If there are no notes for a thread or process, then the Notes option is unavailable.

When you select Notes, a read-only dialog box opens to show the notes which were added and saved in Network Configurator.

Notes HTML features

The HTML that is viewed and is used in the IDE supports HTML 3.2. This only renders basic HTML. It cannot embed applets or Flash. It cannot interpret JavaScript.

Notes file

When notes are added to a process or thread, a new folder is created in the site directory.

For every process that has process notes or has at least one thread notes, a process_name.notes file is created for the process notes.

Similarly, the thread notes file is thread_name.notes.

Notes are located under $HCIROOT\SiteDir\notes\netconfig_file_name\process_name\notes_file.

The thread notes file, process notes file, and process directory are created as required and removed if there are no related notes.

All process notes and thread notes files are plain text and you can edit them by any text editor. The notes file is always saved and read based on UTF-8 encoding.

If you use an external editor to edit the notes file and save it as non-UTF-8 encoding, then the IDE cannot read it properly. This does not affect notes with ACSII- only content because UTF-8 covers ASCII characters.