State

Use this field to specify the text to display on the Event Status form, Event State field, when the action executes.

You must not enclose the text in quotation marks. For literal values, the system inserts quotation marks automatically when you click OK.

As an alternative, you can construct a message to display using expressions. This can be done, for example, when you want to construct a message that includes variable values.

To construct parameter text using expressions, click the button to the left of this field.

The contents of this field must use this syntax:

scalarExpr

where scalarExpr is a literal string or resolves to an expression that can be displayed as text. This expression can be Numeric, String, Date, or Typeless.

When you click OK to return to the Event Actions form, the system "wraps" this content within a STATE( ) parameter, which yields this final syntax:

STATE( scalarExpr )

Note: If scalarExpr is a literal string value, the system automatically encloses it in double quotation marks when returning it to the Event Actions form. If scalarExpr is anything else, the system does not enclose it in quotation marks.