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SYSPRO's Message Inbox provides a mechanism that allows operators to receive messages from various sources in the system, notifying them of tasks that must be actioned.

Functions in SYSPRO that write to an operator's Message Inbox include:

Trigger Programs
ECC routings
Orders processed using the Business-to-Business Trading import facility.

Trigger programs

If generated from the Trigger Programs facility, then you can optionally assign a program to be launched when the message is opened. For example: You could assign a trigger that writes a message to the Stock Controller's Inbox whenever details for a stock code are changed, and launches the Inventory Query program automatically once the Stock Controller opens the message.


You can make use of this facility within your own applications by calling the program COMM SQ with the appropriate parameters defined (see linkage file COMMSQ.LNK). Because this program can be invoked as a COM object, you should be able to use any COM-aware application to post messages to SYSPRO.

You can make use of this facility within your own applications by calling the program COMM SQ with the appropriate parameters defined (see linkage file COMMSQ.LNK).

Because this program can be invoked as a COM object, you should be able to use any COM-aware application to post messages to SYSPRO.

Launching the SYSPRO browser

It is possible to launch the SYSPRO web browser using a link in a message.

Use the business object COMTIB to post messages to the user's inbox. The program to launch is IMPURL and the address to be opened is a parameter.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<!-- Copyright 1994-2013 SYSPRO Ltd.-->
<!-- This is an example XML instance to demonstrate the XmlIn passed to the Message Inbox Post Business Object -->
<Message xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsd:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="COMTIBDOC.XSD">
<Item>
<CompanyId>XXX</CompanyId>
<Operator>XXX</Operator>
<Date>2013-10-30</Date>
<Time>05012000</Time>
<MessageType>USR</MessageType>
<Subject>OPEN BROWSER</Subject>
<FromOperator>ADMIN</FromOperator>
<FromName />
<ProgramToRun>IMPURL</ProgramToRun>
<ProgramParameters>http://www.google.com</ProgramParameters>
<PreventDuplicate>Y</PreventDuplicate>
</Item>
</Message>

The code above will pass a link to Google, which will open in the SYSPRO web browser, to the inbox of operator XXX.