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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 CA Automation Point rules. Jack determines that all messages beginning with IEE136I will appear yellow on the CA Automation Point Merged Messages window. To enforce this, Jack adds the following line in the CA Automation Point 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 will still appear yellow in the CA Automation Point Merged Message window, but Susie's viewing of Web MV will display them as blue.

To map message colors

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 CA Automation Point color constants.
4. Click Change.

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

   After you make your display color selection(s) (for one or more of the sixteen possible message colors), all messages you receive from CA Automation Point for the selected session will use this new "color map" to determine the foreground color used for displaying these messages.

   Note: Message color mapping does not change the color attribute originally assigned to each message by CA Automation Point Rules; it just 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.

By default, the color scheme selected from the Message Color Mapping dialog applies only to the currently monitored CA Automation Point session. To apply this color scheme to all sessions available to you on the selected CA Automation Point server, select the Apply to all sessions check box at the bottom of the Message Color Mapping dialog.

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