The Show Distinct option on the Errors tab is used when you have a lot of errored messages and want QIE to group similar errors together by error text so you can work them in batches instead of one at a time.
What it does:
It searches the errors in the error tab and groups together unique or similar error messages.
- This helps you quickly see how many different error types you actually have, which is useful for prioritizing cleanup and troubleshooting.
- After you identify a group, you can use Search to pull up all messages in that group and then resolve, discard, or export those messages.
Main options in the Show Distinct dialog:
Match Precision Level: controls how strict the grouping is, from Exact Match to more relaxed similarity matching such as Somewhat Similar. The training material notes that Best Match and Very Similar Match are often the most useful settings.
- Count: shows how many messages are in each grouped error.
- Error Message: shows the text used to represent that error group.
- Limit / First x number of groups: limits how many groups QIE will build before stopping the grouping process.
- Stop: lets you manually stop a long-running distinct search.
- Double-click a row: opens a sample error from that group for review.
Typical use:
- Open the channel Errors tab.
- Click Show Distinct.
- Adjust the match precision and limit.
- Let QIE group the errors.
- Select a group and click Search to see all messages in that group.
- Then act on them with the usual error-tab actions.
In short: Show Distinct is a triage tool for the error queue. It helps you identify repeated error patterns and then operate on all matching errored messages more efficiently.
