MESSAGE

Syntax

MESSAGE { msg | txt } [message_options].

Effect

This statement interrupts the program flow and either displays the short text of a message specified in msg in the logon language of the current user, or any text from txt as a message. The exact behavior of the MESSAGE statement - that is, how the text is displayed and how the program flow is continued after the MESSAGE statement - is context-dependent and is determined by a message type specified in msg or txt. This behavior can be changed using the message_options additions and the placeholders can be replaced in messages.

System fields/>

Name	Relevance
sy-msgid	Contains the message-class after sending a message, and the value "00" after sending any text.
sy-msgno	Contains the message number after sending a message, and the value "001" after sending any text.
sy-msgty	Contains the identifier of the message type with which the message resp. the text was sent.
sy-msgv1 to sy-msgv4	Contain the content of the data objects specified after the addition WITH after sending a message. After sending any text, they contain the first 200 characters of the data object text.

Notes

Messages are one way of interacting with a user. Except for messages of the type "X", the MESSAGE statement should be use exclusively in the presentation logic layer and never in the application logic layer.
Setting the text environment by means of the SET LOCALE statement has no effect on the language in which the message is displayed.

Exceptions

Non-Catchable Exceptions

Cause: Message type unknown
Runtime Error: MESSAGE_TYPE_UNKNOWN
Cause: Deliberate raising of a termination with short dump
Runtime Error: MESSAGE_TYPE_X
Runtime Error: MESSAGE_TYPE_X_TEXT
Cause: It is not possible to catch messages of the type 'A' with the term CALL FUNCTION ... EXCEPTIONS ERROR_MESSAGE during ON-COMMIT processing.
Runtime Error: MESSAGE_ROLLBACK_ON_COMMIT
Cause: It is impossible to catch messages of the type 'A' with the term CALL FUNCTION ... EXCEPTIONS ERROR_MESSAGE during an update.
Runtime error MESSAGE_ROLLBACK_IN_POSTING