Sometimes when you’re developing a Mashup it happens that the data you’re expecting to appear in a databound control is not showing up. There’s a small developer tool named Snoop that will help you examine the runtime visual tree of a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) user interface.
Launch Smart Office and open the Mashup Designer. In this post we use an example from the Help menu named Document found in the Infor Document Management category.
Run the example, save it and search for any Document Type e g CLM_Document. Depending on the available data, it will look something like this in the running Mashup.
Now it’s time to launch the Snoop utlitity tool. It has a slim and narrow window. 
Drag the Snoop hair-cross (marked yellow) and drop it on your Mashup window. A new window will open and present the visual tree representation of the user interface in the left-hand panel and the details of the selected UI element in the right-hand panel. Below the details panel there’s a preview panel to render and show the selected UI element (if actived with the power button).
Press down the CTRL- and SHIFT- key simultaneously while you drag the mouse over the Mashup window. The control beneath the mouse will be selected and decorated with a red border and the corresponding element in the Snoop visual tree view will be highlighted and selected. Navigation can also be done directly in the tree-view by selecting UI element nodes.
Let’s examine the bound data for the document attribute panel. Use the mouse or locate and select the LangAttrList (ListBox) in the visual tree. Scroll down in the Properties list until you find ItemsSource property for the ListBox control.
It’s now possible to drill-down into the data collection with a double-click on the value of ItemsSource, in this example [System.Windows.Data.CompositeCollection]. Now you see that the collection contains 1 item: this[0]. You can continue to drill-down with a double-click on the value this[0] to see the details of the item or navigate back up by clicking the up-arrow button (marked yellow).
In this case the ListBox will apply a template for each document attribute found in a collection item. Select the attrTemplate under the ListBoxItem to show its properties. In most template cases the data will be in the DataContext property of the element. Select the Data Context tab for a dedicated view of the property, in this case the DataContext is a piece of XML.
Note that there’s a Binding Errors column in the properties list that will show an error message if the data binding declaration for a UI element property is wrong and the data source can’t be found.
We’ve only scratched the surface of the Snoop tool functionality but it’s the basics needed to investige why your data is not showing up.
Developing for Infor Smart Office 