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Message Color Mapping

Web MV allows a user to define a specific color to a message. To understand the concept of message color mapping, consider the following scenario:

Jack is responsible for maintaining the CA Automation Point server machine and writing rules. Jack determines that all messages beginning with IEE136I are to appear yellow on the Merged Messages window. To enforce this action, Jack adds the following line in the rules file:

MSGID(IEE136I) COLOR(YELLOW)

Susie is a Web MV user viewing a session from the CA Automation Point machine for which Jack is responsible. Therefore, by default, the messages that begin with IEE136I also appear yellow to Susie (because Jack has defined them as yellow). However, Susie can choose to remap the color yellow to another color of her choice; for example, blue. Messages that begin with IEE136I appear yellow in the Merged Message window, but Susie's viewing of Web MV displays them as blue. To map the message colors, do the follows.

Follow these steps:

1. From the Options menu on the Web MV main window, choose Colors.
2. Choose Msg Color Map.

   The Message Color Mapping dialog displays

3. Map a specific color to each of the sixteen color constants.
4. Click Change.

   CA Automation Point remaps the currently selected color to a "display color" of your choice.

   Select your display color selections from the sixteen possible message colors for all messages you receive from CA Automation Point.

   Note: Message color mapping does not change the color attribute originally assigned to each message by Rules. Instead it allows you to display each message in the remapped color for your viewing in Web MV.

Reset All

Resets all sixteen-color mapping assignments back to their original default values.

For more information about the fields in the Message Color Mapping dialog, see the Web Message Viewer HTML Help.