Error messages not complete in 'save as' window.

[luciansmith]

We have an ontology we usually work with in OWL format, but sometimes export to OBO. OBO is more restrictive, so errors can creep in. When you load the OWL file and then 'Save As' and select the OBO format, it will fail, but the error message is cut off and it's impossible to know what the problem actually is:

(in this case, it was an ObjectProperty with two 'domain' children. But we couldn't tell which ObjectProperty, nor even that it was an ObjectProperty.)

[ykazakov]

Can you see this error in the Protege log view?

[luciansmith]

I don't know what the log view is. I didn't find anything promising in the menus when I perused it--how do I get to it?

[gouttegd]

It’s under the Window menu, under the name Show log.

It is also accessible directly through the small button at the bottom right corner of the main window, just next to to the “Show inferences” checkbox:

[luciansmith]

Aha! It is indeed there. It's fairly obscured; a single 'save as OBO' error triggers pages and pages of output and the first ones scroll off the length of the window. But fortunately the relevant 'you had two domains' error is in the last one. It's scrolled off to the right (having word wrap on by default would have been nice) but it is indeed available.