# Trace Recording is a pain **URL:** \ **Category:** Development tools\ **Created:** [February 11, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887 "2011-02-11T15:33:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/1 "2011-02-11T15:33:49Z")
TMT could be set permanently into ‘record to file’ mode, and a new file could be started simply and quickly with just 1 click on the ‘New File’ button. The procedure with DS is far more cumbersome - particularly to change the log file: 1. Click the ‘Stop Logging’ button - to close the old file; 2. Click the ‘Clear View’ button (othewise traces already logged in the old file will be duplicated in the new file); 3. Click the ‘Start Logging’ button; 4. Accept the the proposed filename & location; I often want to change the log file during a session; eg, after the end of one test, prior to starting the next. ---
**Author:** ![daav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.sierrawireless.com/daav/32/2767_2.png) [@daav](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/daav)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 7:25am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/2 "2011-02-14T07:25:33Z")
ok, we’ll have look to enhance this particular use case. ---
**Author:** ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/3 "2011-02-14T07:48:30Z")
Thanks - what I’d like to see is: - Option to start trace recording as soon as the COM port is opened, using the default file name (based on port+date+time), and a project-based location - with no user interaction required; - Single-click button to start a new file during logging - again, no further user interaction. It would be good if the buttons to control logging could be grouped the same in both Trace and AT Console windows. Would it be possible to have a single button to start both trace & AT logging? ---
**Author:** ![daav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.sierrawireless.com/daav/32/2767_2.png) [@daav](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/daav)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/4 "2011-02-14T08:02:54Z")
> [@awneil](#): > > Would it be possible to have a single button to start both trace & AT logging? We’ll have a look to this too, some kind of “grouped logging” feature… ---
**Author:** ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/5 "2011-02-14T08:26:59Z")
> [@daav](#): > > some kind of “grouped logging” feature… Indeed! Would it also be possible to have “grouped logging” on multiple COM ports…? ---
**Author:** ![daav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.sierrawireless.com/daav/32/2767_2.png) [@daav](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/daav)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/6 "2011-02-14T08:59:55Z")
> [@awneil](#): > > Would it also be possible to have “grouped logging” on multiple COM ports…? ok, added to the wish list too 😉 ---
**Author:** ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/7 "2011-07-14T14:19:00Z")
Any update on this? Really, really need that one-click button to “start a new file” - as TMT had. Also, the option to immediately start logging - with out having to explicitly request it each time. And, preferably, have a project-specific location for the log file (not workspace-specific). And remember the timestamping setting. And the column widths. The Scroll Lock button is a bit small & fiddly - and too close to the ‘delete traces’ button! ---
**Author:** ![daav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.sierrawireless.com/daav/32/2767_2.png) [@daav](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/daav)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/8 "2011-07-21T12:41:02Z")
A new DS 2.1.0 release should be available in about one month (2nd half of August). Some requests you’ve made are integrated in it, some other not yet; we’ll see what it’s possible to do for this one. ---
**Author:** ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/9 "2012-11-29T10:40:00Z")
> [@awneil](#): > > Any update on this? First-look results with v2.2.1: > [@](#): > > Really, really need that one-click button to “start a new file” - as TMT had. Close - but no cigar: The ‘Switch logging into a new file’ brings up a dialogue, and the default folder is not the one of the current log file! This really needs to be just one click to just start a new file, but otherwise as before. Still have to repeat everything for both Traces and Console. ---
**Author:** ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/10 "2012-11-29T10:45:43Z")
> [@awneil](#): > > and the default folder is not the one of the current log file! Actually, it seems like the first time you use the ‘Switch logging into a new file’ button it uses the project default location (instead of the currently-selected logging location), but subsequent uses will remember any change! ---
**Author:** ![daav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.sierrawireless.com/daav/32/2767_2.png) [@daav](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/daav)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/11 "2012-11-30T08:50:03Z")
We’ll have a look to clarify the logging behavior for proposed path. - remove the prompt when switching to new file ---
**Author:** ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/12 "2013-01-16T14:30:56Z")
This is still a pain - no change (ie, no improvement) from 2.1.0 - Still have to start Trace & Console logging separately, and navigate separately to the required folder for each; - Still get prompted separately for Trace & Console to switch to a new file - Still have to navigate again separately for Trace & Console on the first use of ‘switch to a new file’ In addition, the Traces window scrolling is completely messed-up! 😠 You have to scroll up to find the control buttons, then scroll back down again to see the latest traces! There needs to be an option to switch the filter section off when it’s not being used. The re-sizing of the filters/traces doesn’t work properly. ---
**Author:** ![daav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.sierrawireless.com/daav/32/2767_2.png) [@daav](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/daav)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/13 "2013-01-16T14:57:20Z")
> [@awneil](#): > > Still have to start Trace & Console logging separately, and navigate separately to the required folder for each A “start logging” action is present in the Devices view since several versions now, which allow to start immediately to log both Traces and Commands, in the default path > [@](#): > > Still get prompted separately for Trace & Console to switch to a new file > Still have to navigate again separately for Trace & Console on the first use of ‘switch to a new file’ We’ve implemented the improvements: will be integrated in 2.3.1 > [@](#): > > In addition, the Traces window scrolling is completely messed-up! 😠 > You have to scroll up to find the control buttons, then scroll back down again to see the latest traces! > There needs to be an option to switch the filter section off when it’s not being used. > The re-sizing of the filters/traces doesn’t work properly. What is your screen height? you probably need to scroll because the view height is too big for your resolution… What do you mean by the resizing doesn’t work properly? ---
**Author:** ![tomridl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/forum.sierrawireless.com/tomridl/32/2704_2.png) [@tomridl](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/tomridl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/trace-recording-is-a-pain/4887/14 "2013-01-16T16:17:34Z")
I also had this size problem, opened and closed the traces view a few times and it came right!