Message Sets: Configuring TDS properties: Message model objects

You can configure the Tagged/Delimited String (TDS) properties of a message model object.

1. Switch to the Integration Development perspective.
2. Ensure that the Outline view is visible in the Integration Development perspective of the IBM® Integration Toolkit and is displaying the following information:
   • The name of the message definition file
   • Messages
   • Types
   • Groups
   • Elements and Attributes

   If the Outline view is not visible, from the IBM Integration Toolkit menu, click Window > Show View > Outline. If the above hierarchy is not displayed, ensure that the message definition file is open in the Message Definition editor. Message definition files have an .mxsd file extension.

3. In the Outline view, select the object for which you want to configure the TDS properties by taking the following steps:
   1. Depending on the type of the object that you are selecting, expand Messages, Types, Groups or Elements and Attributes by clicking +.
   2. Click the object that you want to select within the expanded node.
4. Display the Properties tab of the Message Definition editor by clicking Properties in the lower-left corner of the editor area.
   In the Message Definition editor, in the Properties Hierarchy, the name of each of the physical formats that have been added to the message set appears under Physical Properties. The object type (for example, Local Element or Global Element) of the message model object that you selected in the Outline view is displayed under each physical format shown.

   Tip: If the physical formats are not in view in the Properties Hierarchy, expand Physical Properties by clicking +. By default the TDS physical format is called Text1 but could have a user defined name instead.
5. Select the Properties tab located in the lower-left corner of the Message Definition editor.
6. Under Physical Properties, under the TDS physical format, click the object type for the message model object that you have chosen to configure.
   The TDS physical format properties of your selected message model object appear in the Details view.
7. Configure the TDS physical format properties of the selected object to your requirements by making the appropriate changes to the information shown in the Details view.
   Note: It is not possible to configure disabled fields.
8. Save your changes by selecting File > Save message_definition_file.mxsd from the menu or press Ctrl+S. Alternatively, from the menu, select File > Save All, or press Ctrl+Shift+S.