Prevent inactive nodes from logging

[mwiegand]

Hi,

I always wondered why there is so much log noise and happen to notice that even disabled nodes of inactive branches are logging stuff.

That makes debugging particular difficult. Hence, I want to suggest to prevent nodes, which are part of inactive branches, from logging anything.

This has been flagged before by @jan_lender in:

Console log: Nodes in an inactive branch are logged as executed

I was deeply employed with workflow debugging, error investigation and troubleshooting during last couple of weeks. Besides other stuff, I dealt with the console log KNIME produces. I figured out some difficulties that prevent me from getting certain what happened to the workflow while it was executing. One thing I noticed was I could find log entries that belonged to the nodes in inactive branches. Looking at the log I could get mistaken the node was executed although it couldn’t in reality. L…

@ipazin it seems there already exists a ticket. Can you find it?

Best
Mike

[ScottF]

Hey Mike, I found it. It’s AP-11794.