The Designer provides a Messages panel which
you can show or hide. This panel is dockable in any position within
the main panel or can be a separate window.
The Messages panel displays a list of
messages, see the following figure.
![diada_messages19.png](../../JViews_Diagrammer/usrcompdiag/_media/diada_messages19_default.png)
The Messages panel
You can filter the list according to the
severity level as shown. By default, only messages of level Severe
and above are shown.
The messages help you to debug your style
rules.
If you expand a message, you can see the
details of the style rule and styling property value that caused
the error. You can double-click the style rule listed below the
message to highlight:
- The rule in the Style rules hierarchy
- The affected nodes in the Diagram (if any)
- The property setting in the Styling Customizer (if the cause was a property setting)