Configuring Notifications and Messages

You can configure notifications on messages specifically for your company.

See About Objects/Options You Can Configure for background details.

  1. Open the file Apps/Framework/VERSION/UserInterface/emxFrameworkStringResource_LANGUAGE.properties, where LANGUAGE is the standard abbreviation for the language. The English versions have no language abbreviation.

    To revise message text for English, open the file in any text editor.

    To revise message text for any non-English language:

    1. Open the properties file using Microsoft Word.

      Word prompts you to choose the file encoding necessary to load the file.

    2. Click OK to accept the default.

  2. Find the message you want to configure.

  3. Edit the text after the equal sign (=). Do not edit the tag that identifies the message.

  4. To define a company-specific version of the message:

    1. Copy the entire line for the standard message (tag and content) and paste it under the line.
    2. To the end of the tag, add a period (.) and the company's name, with no white space between words and using the same capitalization and spelling used in the company's database definition.
    3. Edit the message by editing the text after the = sign.

  5. If you are working with an English file, save the file normally.

    If you are working with a non-English file:

    1. Save the file as encoded text.
    2. Click Yes to save it in text format, then choose the same encoding used to load the file (should be the default).
    3. Click OK.
    4. Convert the file to ASCII by running the following command: 

          native2ascii -encoding CODE INPUTFILE OUTPUTFILE

      where:

      CODE is the language encoding (shown in the files header).

      INPUTFILE is the name of the file you edited.

      OUTPUTFILE is the name of the file to be created. The output file will be in Unicode, which means it will contain letters followed by escape characters in place of the native characters.

      For example: 

          native2ascii -encoding JIS 

    emxFrameworkStringResource_ja_Native.properties 

    emxFrameworkStringResource_ja.properties

  6. Make sure the saved file is in Apps/Framework/VERSION/UserInterface and make a backup copy of the property files.

  7. If running a J2EE implementation, run the warutil and deploy the archive file.

  8. Restart the application server.