Inbox

The Inbox form displays system messages that can come from two possible sources:

• Application events that employ a Notify or Prompt action type.
• Communications initiated and sent by individual system users to other users on the system.

This form displays only those messages which are still in your Inbox "folder" and not messages that have been moved to other folders. To view those messages, you must use the Saved Messages form. The Inbox form also does not allow you to move messages to other "folders." To do that, you must use the Saved Messages form.

When a message is received, if you have set options to be notified, the system alerts you with the selected notifications.

For more information, see Notifications Settings.

You can mark messages as read and, depending on how and why the message was sent, make other responses. In certain cases, you can also view the context, that is, see the original form and data that generated the message.

The Inbox form can be accessed in a number of different ways:

• From the View menu, by selecting the Inbox option.
• In the Windows taskbar (notifications area), by double clicking the application inbox notification icon.
• In the same ways that any other forms are accessed.

The form has these tabs:

• Use the Message tab to create your message.
• The Response tab is active and available only for messages that prompt recipients for a response of some kind. Typically, the question to which recipients might be asked to respond is presented in the Question field. Possible responses are presented in the form of two or more voting buttons that recipients can click to indicate their choice. The voting buttons appear in the Choices area of this tab.
• For messages generated by the system in response to an event handler, the Variables tab displays information about any event variables associated with that event handler.

  In some cases, depending on how the event handler and its associated variables are defined, you might be able to modify the values of some variables as part of your response. In other cases, the information is display-only.

For more information, see these topics in the Guide to the Application Event System:

• "The Inbox Form"
• "Event Messages"
• "The Saved Messages Form"
• "The Send Message Form"
• "Prompts and Responses"
• "About Event Actions"
• "Setting Variable Access"