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Displaying User Messages

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Displaying User Messages

Some Server Events are designed to display messages to the user based on a return value. For the other server events a user message can be displayed by throwing the WebReports.Api.Common.WrUserMessage(string, wrUSerMessageType) method.

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This method can be used for all server events except OnConfigLoadStart, OnConfigLoadEnd and OnExceptionThrown

WrUserMessage(string messageOrId, wrUserMessageType Type)

DescriptionDisplays a message to the user.
Arguments
  • messageOrId: either a message string, or a language file ID that contains the message content. Set the value of the type argument accordingly.
  • type: a value from the wrUserMessageType enumeration, that determines if the messageOrId argument should be treated as a string literal with the message content, or should be used to look up a matching language file ID.
Example
Example of wrUserMessage
//OnWebServiceExecuteEnd, inspect the returned value and throw
// a message if it matches any of the error messages.
object webServiceResult = args[0];
switch(webServiceResult.ToString())
{
	case "message1" : throw new WrUserMessage("Some Message to User", WrUserMessageType.Text);
}
return webServiceResult;

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