Showing the Watchdog logs

That weekend, Lynn finally had time for Jim's homework. She decided that a block showing the five most recent errors would be available for everyone who could log in. At the bottom of this block would be a See more link to go to a page that showed all the page not found errors in a table format.

Adding the Views

Again starting at the Views listing page (Manage | Structure | Views), Lynn clicked on the Add new view button. She then completed the following fields:

  • View name: Page Not Found Errors
  • Description: field checked with text Display URLs of page not found errors from the Drupal Watchdog log
  • VIEW SETTINGS Show: Log entries
  • Sorted by: Newest first
  • PAGE SETTINGS Create a page: field checked
  • Page title: Page Not Found Errors ...

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