New Relevance Debugger with Graphical Output

(imported topic written by BenKus)

Hi everybody,

We have been working on a new version of the Relevance Debugger. It hasn’t gone through a whole lot of testing, but we wanted to let everyone take a look and see if they like some of the changes.

Try the “Graphical Tab” option to see your relevance displayed graphically. It takes a minute to get used to, but it will let you see exactly how your relevance is broken down and see the results of each step by clicking on each part of the relevance.

http://support.bigfix.com/fixlet/documents/RelevanceDebugger-7.0.0.101.zip

See the example:

http://support.bigfix.com/images/pictures/rd-example.jpg

Please post your comments.

Ben

(imported comment written by amitspradhan)

Hey Ben,

This one is great…especially when there is some syntax issue, this one helps in detecting it in the path rather than just throwing and error.

Just wanted to check, can there be something which would autopopulate the syntax like the ones in scripting tools…for example: if i want to type —

names of ----it should pop up with options which would help me select the one i want…

(imported comment written by JasonO91)

Ben,

I’ve plugged in some of the more interesting relevance statements, and I really like the graphical view. It’s always been a pain trying to figure out where to put the whose it statements. As you said, it does take a little bit getting used to, but now that I can follow what the query is looking for, this should make things quite a bit easier.

Thanks,

Jason

(imported comment written by JasonO91)

Ben,

I’ve attempted to plug the following query into the new 7.0 debugger and it returns an error that the metabase doesn’t exist. It does work in the latest debugger.

(values whose (identifier of it as integer = 1015) of keys of key “LM\w3svc” of metabase as string)

Jason

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

amitspradhan, I’m interested in that idea also. To get an idea of the sort of information it’s possible to provide when you type something like

names of

, try this expression:

Q: unique values of (singular name of it;plural name of it) of properties whose ( exists ( result type of it, direct object types of properties whose ( plural name of it is “names” ) ) whose ( item 0 of it = item 1 of it or parent of item 0 of it = item 1 of it or parent of parent of item 0 of it = item 1 of it) )

Every result is property that has a ‘names of’ accessor.