DT428 Dialog message

DI000357 MSG

ID of the dialog message. It is automatically generated when new dialog messages are created.

DI001765 Button type

Values

• 0: no button, activity display
  • This box is displayed until it is closed by the MSG OFF macro command or until the macro is closed. The user cannot terminate this box.
  • If a box with button type = 0 is already displayed, it may be replaced by the new box if another MSG command is executed. This way, intermediate messages can be displayed.
• 1: OK
• 2: OK + Back
• 3: Yes + No
• 4: Yes + No + Back

DI001766 Default button

Default button. Number of the button which is preset and clicked on when you press <ENTER>.

Values

• 1: OK or Yes
• 2: No
• 3: Back

DI001569 Dialog message

The text to be displayed can be entered here.

Information

• Variables can also be embedded in dialog message texts. In the text output, it is not the variable but its current content that is displayed.
• The following variable types are possible:
  • System variables: @xx
  • Global variables @Gxxxx
  • Dynamic variables: @Dxxxx
  • User variables: @Uxxxx

Notes

• In standard dialog messages which are used in the source, there are additional placeholders like %s. They are filled with the corresponding data by the program when the dialog message is displayed.
• If there are several placeholders in one dialog message, the sequence in which they are replaced is stored in the program. If the text of such a dialog message is changed, this must be taken into account in order to prevent errors in the output.
  • Dialog message 0339 reads Schedule calculation canceled (Reason: resource periods incomplete: Resource: %s, date: %s). In this message, the first occurrence of the placeholder %s is always filled with the resource ID, the second occurrence is filled with the corresponding date. If the sequence in brackets is changed to ... Date: %s, resource: %s..., the output will hence be incorrect.

DI026385 OLE symbol

The stored OLE is displayed in the dialog message.

Information

• OLEs can be created, edited, and deleted in the OLEs module.

DI026384 Output type

Values

• 0: Display in the status line
• 1: Dialog message
• 2: Dialog message with an input field
• 3: Dialog message with two input fields
• 4: Permanent display in the status line (e.g. "server restart required")

Note

• Output types 2 and 3:
  • The entries made in the dialog message can be read via Python.

DI051812 Use in source

Values

• : Dialog message is used in the source
• : Dialog message is not used in the source

DI062321 Python code

When a record is created, the Python code for the dialog message is automatically generated here.