Work with Management Center messages

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Show MeThe Management Center message console is located in the status bar, below the main work area.

About this taskThere are three types of messages:

Status messages

Indicate that an action has been taken and it has completed successfully. Status messages are informational and do not require any further action. For example, you can have a status message indicating that your changes have been successfully saved.

Error messages

Indicate that a problem has occurred with a task you have been working on during the current Management Center session. Error messages require your attention and can be fixed by using the Management Center tools. For example, you can have an error message indicating that you have not provided mandatory information while completing a task (such as not providing a unique product name when creating a new product for your seasonal catalog). You must fix this problem before you can continue. The message remains in the message console until you have addressed the problem.

Once they are reported, error messages are not automatically translated when you switch languages. Any new errors reported will match the new language.

System error messages

Indicate that a problem has occurred in the WebSphere Commerce server. Typically, this is a problem that a business user cannot rectify and requires assistance from a system administrator (for example, a connection problem or a server problem).
You can view, sort, and clear Management Center messages:

  1. Open the Management Center.

  2. The status bar at the bottom of the screen displays a message for some actions. Click the message to view a list of all messages in the message console.

  3. From the message console, work with messages:

    Option Description
    View Select from this menu to filter the list of messages. You can view all messages, only error messages, only status messages, or only system messages.
    Any column heading Click a column heading to sort the list of messages. The list will be sorted in alphabetic order, if the context is text (such as a description), or numerically for the date column. Click the column heading again to toggle between ascending and descending sorting.
    Any error message Double-click an error message within the message console to link directly to the properties page that contains the error. Note you can only double-click error (not status or system) messages. Error messages are the only types of messages that a business user can fix using the Management Center. Once you have rectified a problem and saved your changes, the message is automatically cleared from the list of messages. once they are reported will not be automatically translated when you switch languages. Any new errors reported will match the new language.
    Copy Select this button to copy messages from the message console into another application. To copy multiple messages at once, press Shift or Crtl and click the messages.
    Clear Select this button to remove specific status messages or system messages from the list. Highlight one or more messages in the list and click this button to remove them from the list. Note that you can only clear status or system messages; error messages will be automatically removed from the list, once you have fixed the error.
    Close Select this button to close the message console.

  4. Click Close to close the message console.