Message set editor

The Message set editor has the following views:

Application Development view

The Application Development view shows a hierarchical view of all the resources that are currently in your workspace. By expanding the folder for a message set project, you can see the resources, including the message set file, that this message set project contains.

Editor view

You edit the properties of message set in the editor area of the Message set editor, which has a single tab, the Properties tab. This tab provides:

• The Properties Hierarchy, which provides a hierarchy with four basic categories: Message Set, XML Wire Formats, Custom Wire Formats, and Tagged/Delimited String Formats.
• The Details view, which displays the properties relating to the currently selected level in the Properties Hierarchy.

  You select the Default message domain you require from the read-only drop down list. When you select the domain from the drop down list, the corresponding Supported message domains check box is greyed out and you cannot select it.

  You can add other domains by selecting the appropriate check boxes in Supported message domains.

There are tabs across the top of the editor area containing the file name for each file that you have open; this enables you to quickly switch between the open files.

Problems view

Each time that you save a change within a message set project, the content is validated to ensure that the message model follows certain rules. All informational, warning, or error, messages that relate to the validation appear in the this view.

Right-click in the Properties Hierarchy to display the menu items available for the level of the hierarchy that you have currently selected:

• Undo and Redo are available for all levels in the Properties Hierarchy and apply to changes that you make in the Details view. To undo a change that you have made to a message set file, but have not yet saved, click Undo. If you undo a change, you can reinstate it by clicking Redo.
• If XML Wire Formats, Custom Wire Formats, or Tagged/Delimited String Formats are selected, menu items are available for adding physical format layers to a message set file. These are Add XML Wire Format, Add Custom Wire Format, and Add Tagged/Delimited String Format, respectively.
• If an existing physical format is selected, the following menu items are available for the selected physical format layer:
  • Apply default physical format settings applies the default physical format settings to the selected physical format layer.
  • Rename renames the selected physical format layer for the message set file. Click Finish on the displayed window to confirm the change of name.
  • Delete deletes the selected physical format layer from the message set file. Click Finish on the displayed window to confirm the deletion.

You use the Details view to define and edit global properties for the message set, and to create and edit properties for the physical format layers that you have added to the message set.

You create any required documentation for a message set in the Documentation field. Right-click in this field to display a menu of standard text editing menu items that apply specifically to this field and that allow you to undo changes, cut, copy, paste and delete text, and select all the text in the field.