Status Window

The RTW status window displays information such as the version numbers for RTW and its engines, RTSHARE, network status messages, status messages from the data distribution system (errors, warnings, etc), as well as other relevant status messages.

Any invalid field or record names encountered by the service will also cause a message to be posted to the status window. If you are not receiving the expected real-time data in Microsoft® Excel, check the status window for relevant messages.

The top buttons of the window represent the components that have messages available. The RTW button represents the RTW server and is always displayed. When an engine is started or RTSHARE is used, a button for that component will be added to the toolbar. To view the messages for a component, click on its button.

For each component, there are tabs categorizing the different types of messages that the server or engine might send to the Status Window. For example, the tabs for the RTW component are: Information, Warnings, and Errors. Each engine and RTSHARE has its own message types. To switch between message types, click on the appropriate tab.

The Status Window will automatically switch to a component when either 1) initialization of the component has occurred or 2) an error occurred for that component.

You can show or hide the RTW and RTSHARE Status Window by selecting Vistasource → Info → Show/Hide Status Window.

By default, the status window first appears when a real-time RTW request is made. Real-time requests are made with the “rt” and “rtinsert” commands in the RTD function or in the RTW COM server.

Cell Status Messages