How to set up SAFE X3 Studio for Eclipse for Debugging

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The setup involves two configurations, namely, Eclipse and Sage X3 side.

First part we will set up the Sage X3 to use Eclipse with the following:

Parameters > Users > Users

Select the relevant user record
Go to Parameter tab
Locate to Chapter > Supervisor, Group > Dev, and Select row action (Right-hand) and select Detail from the drop-down menu
On the listed parameter carefully fill in the following:

AECLIDBG -> Yes

AECLIDBGTR -> Yes

AECLIMAC -> (Web server name)

AECLIPRT -> 10000

AECLIPSE -> Yes

Second part we will need to set up eclipse to be able to communicate with Sage X3

On the User parameter fill in your Debugger machine and port, like the ones on your Sage X3 environment.

Note. If you followed these steps properly these parameters will fill by default

To start debugging X3 code, do the following:
On X3, open your script/file.
Go to Debug perspective (Window > Perspective > Open perspective > Debug)
Go to Attach to process (Project > Attach process) and you will see the list of sessions.
Select your process the click Attach

Put your cursor on the line in your script where you need to start the debug process
Double-click next to the line number and a blue dot will appear indicating where you going to start debugging.

If you don’t want to use the method mentioned above you can use the Dbgmode (Enables the debugger to work) and Dbgaff (Activate the debuger) variable which you add like the illustrated image below, on the line you want to debug