Message - Details

Select Admin Menu > Message and navigate to the Details tab to define detailed information about a message.

Description of Page

The Message Collection scroll contains an entry for every message in the grid on the Main tab. It's helpful to categorize messages into two categories when describing the fields on this page:

• Base-package messages
• Implementation-specific messages (i.e., a message added to Message Category 90000 or greater)

For base-package messages, you can use this page as follows:

• If you want to override a message, specify Customer Specific Message Text.
• You are limited to the same substitution values used in the original Message Text. For example, if the original Message Text is The %1 non-cash deposit for %2 expires on %3 and %1 is the type of non-cash deposit, %2 is the name of the customer, and %3 is the expiration date of the non-cash deposit; your Customer Specific Message Text is limited to the same three substitution variables. However, you don't have to use any substitution variable in your message and you can use the substitution variables in whatever order you please (e.g., %3 can be referenced before %1, and %2 can be left out altogether).
• If you want to override the long description of an error message, specify Customer Specific Description. Note that the system does not present long descriptions when warnings are shown to users. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to enter this information for a warning message.

For implementation-specific messages, you can use this page as follows:

• Use Message Text to define the message.

  You can use the % n notation within the message text to cause field values to be substituted into a message. For example, the message text The %1 non-cash deposit for %2 expires on %3 will have the values of three fields merged into it before it is displayed to the user (%1 is the type of non-cash deposit, %2 is the name of the customer, and %3 is the expiration date of the non-cash deposit).

• Use Description to define additional information about an error message. Note that the system does not present long descriptions when warnings are shown to users. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to enter this information for a warning message.