About Application Message Construction

Use application messages to display these types of information:

Information or questions that require responses from the user
Warnings about potential problems or conditions
Error conditions within the application environment or operations
System responses to user actions

Note: The types of application messages described here are generated through application database code (stored procedures, triggers, etc.) and/or in the IDO layer (IDO extension class assemblies, etc.). Messages that are generated at the client are not applicable here and do not reference or use the messages that are contained in these Application tables.

Application messages are stored in the system and are invoked in response to user or system operations. Messages can be constructed with both literal strings and variable values substituted and inserted into the message when it is invoked.

Messages are identified and invoked with a unique message number that is assigned to the message when it is constructed.