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Once you leave the Messages window, after you make and save your changes, you should submit a concurrent request for the Generate Messages program to build your message file. Your new messages take effect as soon as your concurrent request finishes successfully and you have placed the new file in the appropriate directories.

When you upgrade, any customizations you make to Oracle Applications messages will be overwritten. However, an upgrade does not overwrite messages you define using your own application.

• Register your application.

• Create a mesg directory (or some other location if your operating system does not support directories) directly under your application's base directory where Oracle Application Object Library can store your message files. You need a mesg directory on both the client machine and the server machine.

Name

Your message name can be any combination of letters, numbers, hyphens (-), underscores (_) and spaces, up to 30 characters in length. Message Dictionary names are not case sensitive (for example, MESSAGENAME is the same name as messagename).

You use this message name in your forms or concurrent programs when you invoke the Message Dictionary.

Language

Oracle Applications displays the correct language based on the user's current language.

Application

Enter the name of the application for which you wish to define message text.

When you upgrade, any customizations to Oracle Applications messages will be overwritten. However, an upgrade does not overwrite messages you define using your own application name.

Number

Enter a message number, if appropriate. If you define a non-zero message number for your message, Message Dictionary automatically prepends your message with the prefix APP- (or its translated equivalent). Message Dictionary treats 0 and null as the same (and does not display the APP- or the message number).

Description

You should enter information in this field that would help explain the context of this message to translators.

Current Message Text

Enter a message that describes the problem and its resolution. You can include variable tokens preceded by an ampersand (&) to indicate the location of substitute text. You supply the substitute text or field references in your form's message calls. For example, you could define an explanation for a message you call "Value Less Than Or Equal" like this:

Please enter a value that is less than or equal to &VALUE. 

Your user sees the message explanation as:

Please enter a value that is less than or equal to $30.00. 

You can specify your own variable tokens using numbers, letters, and underscores (_). Your variable tokens can be up to 30 characters long. You can use the same token more than once in your defined messages to repeat your substitute text.