I’ve created a task and I’ve checked the box for a log file ( default folder of avast ) with the following infos to be added :
start time
end time
hard errors
ignored and infected files
xml format.
The scheduled task has run without problem, but when finished I can’t view the log file by avast : in “sessions” I can see the task, but when I right click on it I have the options :
delete
show results
update
properties.
In avast folder, I have the following files :
_20060507_2030.xml
_20060507_2030_footer.xml
_20060507_2030_main.xml
_20060507_2030_stat.xml
_20060507_2030_title.xml
If I open _20060507_2030.xml, I have the informations I want ( number of files opened, tested, infected … )
Can someone tell me why I can’t view the log file ?
I’m not sure I understand the question…
How about the “Show results” option in the context menu? Or, why not simply left click (or doubleclick, depends on what panel are you in) the session, instead of the right click?
On the “Results” page of task configuration, you have to check the option “Store results in internal database for later processing” (and also select the records to store). This option is independent of the report file.
Were there any results (of selected categories) after all?
I mean, when you selected the session in the sessions folder, the statistics was displayed in the bottom right panel. If there were any results (infected files, for example), you should see them in the upper right panel.
When I open the log.file using Windows Explorer ( file name C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\report\Analyse hebdomadaire_20060507_2030.xml ) I have the result of the scan.
I just want to know why I can’t open it with Avast.
In Enhanced User Interface, there are 2 independent things:
task results, stored in avast! internal database
report file, generated when the task was executed
They don’t have anything in common (except for the fact that they both have information about the same session) - you can configure each of them to store different type of records. When you click “Show results” in the context menu, the upper right panel shows the results from the internal database - not from the report file.
Your task doesn’t have any results (no infected file was found or skipped) - so you see an empty panel; that’s how it’s supposed to be. In the bottom part of the window, you see the statistics for the session - the same as you can see in the report file (I mean, it doesn’t come from the report file, but it has the same information because it’s for the same session).
So, the “Show results” option behaves different from the Simple User Interface; the Simple User Interface doesn’t have any internal database to store the results to, so the “Show results” option does open the report file (if any); it’s not the case in the Enhanced User Inteface, however.
Well, that’s that way it is. The report file is something generated for you, so that you can inspect it using other tools (IE, for example), maybe send it to somebody else, etc.
If you want results that can be displayed in avast!, you should use the internal results, not the report file.
It certainly wouldn’t be possible (it already is present in the Simple User Interface), but:
the report file is not “specific” for the task. I mean, you can set the same report file name for multiple tasks, possible overwriting the file every time you run one of them. So, the “Show report file” option may actually diplay a report for a completely different task than the one you expect (and you won’t know about it).
Igor, Vlk said me (by email) that these glitches will occur only in the ‘old’ scheduled tasks and not in the ‘new’ ones you’ll create (if I did not understand him bad).
Well, for me they’re still there, accented characters are not allowed in the ‘new’ scheduled nor the ‘old’ ones are displayed correctly.
Is there anything that we can help? Is this any translation problem?
