This component allows application developers to create express messages in their R/3 applications. The express messages are displayed to the recipient in a dialog box, irrespective of the transaction he or she is currently working in. Processing can be started directly from the express message.

Extensive express handling with the following functions is available to the applications:

• Any user in any client can receive information via a dialog box.
• You are free to create the title and the text in the dialog box. It is administered via T100. Variable text sections (for example, document titles, and so on) are possible, as with messages.
• An object from the Business Object Repository (BOR) can be executed directly from the dialog box.
• The processing that was started from the dialog box can be executed in an amodal window so that the current work is not disrupted. This means that a new session is started for the processing and the session with the current work remains open parallel to this new session.
• A link to the inbox of the Business Workplace can be offered.
• The appearance of the dialog box can be integrated so that either the dialog box immediately appears the next time the user executes an action or so that it does not appear until the next time the user executes a new logon. You can set this option for each user.
• If a user is not logged on when an express message is created for them, the dialog box appears the next time this user logs on.
• When a user logs on to the R/3 System, express messages are integrated into the dialog box that informs the user about unread documents in his or her Workplace inbox.
• If several messages with the same text accumulate for one user, you can issue a collective message or list the messages individually. If the text is the same but the titles of the individual messages are different, a neutral title is displayed for the collective message.

An express message can only be displayed once. Afterwards, it is deleted directly from the database.