Message - Main

Select Admin Menu > Message to maintain a message category and its messages.

Description of Page

To add a new message category, enter a Message Category number and Description.

Note: Note. Owner indicates if this message category is owned by the base package or by your implementation ( Customer Modification). The system sets the owner to Customer Modification when you add a category. This information is display-only.

CAUTION:

Message category 90000 or greater must be used to define new messages introduced for a specific implementation of the system. Changes to other Message Text will be overwritten when you next upgrade. If you want to make a change to a Message, drill down on the message and specify Customer Specific Message Text.

To update a message, you must first display its Message Category. You can optionally start the message grid at a Starting Message Number.

To override the message text or long description of messages owned by the base package, click on the message's go to button. When clicked, the system takes you to the Details tab on which you can enter your implementation's override text.

The following points describe how to maintain messages owned by your implementation:

Click the - button to delete a message.
Click the + button to add a new message. After clicking this button, enter the following fields:
Use Message Number to define the unique identifier of the message within the category.
Use Message Text to define a basic 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 3 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).

Please note - the system merges whatever values are supplied to it. Therefore, if a programmer supplies a premise address as the second merge parameter in the above message, this address is merged into the message (rather than the customer's name).

Owner indicates if this message category is owned by the base package or by your implementation ( Customer Modification). The system sets the owner to Customer Modification when you add a category. This information is display-only.
Click the go to button to enter a longer explanation of the message. Clicking this button transfers you to the Details tab.
To change a message, simply overtype its Message Text and save the category. Note, you must transfer to the Details tab if you want to update a messages Description.

Where Used

Follow this link to open the data dictionary where you can view the tables that reference CI_MSG.