# Create information messages

Use information messages to give the operator prompts about what to do next or information about a process. Use the Information Messages editor to create information messages and specify their trigger values. You can define up to 10,000 messages in each message file.

## To create information messages

1. Double-click the Information Messages icon to open the editor.
2. Specify the messages and their trigger values.
3. From the File menu, choose Save and specify a name for the file.
4. Click Close.

## To delete messages

- Select any cell in the message's row and then press Delete. Shift-click in a column to select cells for multiple messages.

## To copy messages

1. In the Message column, select one or more messages and then press Ctrl-C, or right-click and then click Copy.
2. In the Message column, click the cell to paste the first message in, and then press Ctrl-V, or right-click and then click Paste.

## Options

- Trigger value

  Type a non-zero integer trigger value. You can use positive and negative numbers. Trigger values do not need to be contiguous, but they must be unique for each message. For example, you could use trigger values of 1, 2, and 3, or values of 10, 20, and 30. The trigger value cannot be blank.

- Message

  Type the message, up to 256 characters long. You can use the new line character, \n, to specify that the message continues onto the next line after the character.

  or

  Right click in the message column to open the Context menu, and then click Edit string. Use this option to insert an embedded variable in the message.

## See also

About information messages

Set up how information messages are shown

Edit message strings

Embed a variable in a message