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You can use short messages to send important information to the users of an SAP system. You can either send the message to all users on all application servers or only to users that are logged on to a particular application server.

A message is only displayed to the recipient once a day. Messages are displayed to users in the following ways:

  • When a user logs on to the system

  • As soon as the message is sent (if a user is already logged on)

A user must actively acknowledge a system message before continuing work.

Features

You can use the System Messages function to carry out the following tasks:

Create Message

You can post as many messages as you wish. Messages can be more than one line long. This is described in detail in Creating and Sending System Messages.

Display Message

Choose   Goto   Current Messages   or   Goto   Archived Messages   to display active messages or inactive, archived messages (messages that are available in the database even though they have expired).

Change Message

You can alter the text and expiration date of any message (see Creating and Sending System Messages).

Delete Message

You can delete an individual message or all messages. To delete a specific message, position the cursor on it and choose Delete (Delete). You can also choose   Goto   Delete   to do this, or   Goto   Delete All   to delete all system messages.

Caution Caution

Deleted messages are then removed from the database, which means they are no longer kept with the archived messages.

End of the caution.

Create Message from Program

Normally, you create system messages interactively. However, it is also possible to do this from a program.

More information: Creating a System Message Under Program Control.

Activities

Choose   Administration   System Messages   or go to transaction SM02.