Can we display a Custom Message on POD

[Former Member]

Dear All,

I want to display a custom message on POD in an activity hook at POST_COMPLETE hook point.Is it possible? And I am trying to raise an exception on POD in the same activity hook however the standard message is displaying. Is there any way to pass custom message to standard message system.

[daria_segeda]

Hi Grant,

According to your question about plugins. It's a common information. We can not display custom success messages in POD. Such customization is possible only when we have task to create custom POD plugin.

So for scenarion with POST-COMPLETE hook this will not help.

To display error message in POD new POST-COMPLETE custom hook should simply throw exception.

[Former Member]

Hi Daria

If I understand you, the standard ME functionality allows for configuring a Post-Complete Activity Hook but does not provide any capability to respond back to the operator regarding a success message for that Activity?

Please tell me that this is a missed design (to be corrected later) and not a WAD?

Grant

[Former Member]

The inability to display a success message from a hook is caused by a key design decision.  Server-side business logic should not be tightly coupled with GUIs.    It requires a custom POD plugin to display this success message. 

The separation of business logic on the server side from the client-side GUI limits the interaction between these two layers.  The hooks run on the server side and cannot easily communicate with the client side.  That is why a custom POD plugin is needed to display this.

In a world of abundant resources, we would probably design an alternate communications channel for these messages, but other tasks always seem to get in the way.

[daria_segeda]

Hi Avinash,

There is no way to pass custom success message to standard POD message system. If hook raise an exception it will be shown on POD.

If you develop a new POD plugin you can display your own message in it.

[Former Member]

Hi Daria

I'm a little concerned about the POD plug-in part of the answer, can you please clarify?

We have a POST-complete activity on an operation in the routing that is capturing an exception. I have seen exception messages from other core post-complete activities use the POD error message path to respond back to the operator and roll-back the COMPLETE transaction.

Therefore there must be a way for the POST-COMPLETE activity to pass an error message back to the message pathway.

I don't see how a custom pod plug-in will effect this?

Am I wrong?