Setting Up Message Templates

A JD Edwards EnterpriseOne workflow process uses message templates to present messages that contain specific information or information that is substituted from data items within the process.

When you add an Information or Action task (a task that sends messages to individuals or to members of a distribution list), you can choose to use a message template. Message templates enable you to send boilerplate text along with information that is substituted from data items used within the process.

You can create a new message template before you begin creating a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne workflow process or set up the template during creation of an Information or Action task.

Use this naming convention when creating message templates:

• LMxxxxyyy

• where LM identifies the message as a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne workflow message

• xxxx = the system code (use system codes 55 through 59 for customer-specific messages)

• yyy = a sequential number

Access OMW.

1. In OMW, highlight the project to which you want to add the message template, and then click Add.

2. On the Add EnterpriseOne Object to the Project form, select Data Item in the Control Table Objects area, and then click OK.

3. On the Data Dictionary Item Type dialog box, click Yes to add a glossary data item.

4. On the Glossary Items form, click the Item Specifications tab, and then complete these fields:

   • Glossary Group

     Enter Y to identify the message as a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne workflow message. The system disables the Data Structure Template tab, which is used for creating error messages, not JD Edwards EnterpriseOne workflow messages.

   • Product Code

     A UDC (98/SY) that identifies a system. Valid values include:

     01: Address Book

     03B: Accounts Receivable

     04: Accounts Payable

     09: General Accounting

     11: Multicurrency

     Enter a UDC that specifies the product code.

   • Product Code Report

     Enter a UDC that specifies the system number for reporting and jargon.

   • Description

     Enter a description for the workflow message.

   • Error Level

     This field is used to indicate whether the template is an error message, warning message, or information message.

     Enter 3 to define the template as an information message.

5. Click the Item Glossary tab and enter the text for the message.

   If the message contains values that will be substituted by data items from the key data and additional data, leave a placeholder for them by using an ampersand (&) and the number of the value.

6. Click OK when you have finished setting up the message template.