Symbolic strings not only provide static translatable text snippets for the Siebel user interface. With the Message Category object type, we find a valuable resource to store dynamic message text templates in the Siebel Repository.

Messages can be combined with message categories for easier classification. We can reference the messages in custom scripts, enabling us to adhere to professional programming standards by avoiding hardcoded text in the program.

Messages can include placeholders for dynamic text replacement at runtime. These placeholders are specified by the percentage sign (%) followed by a sequential number. A valid placeholder would be for example %1. At runtime, the developer can submit arguments to the script functions, which retrieve the message text and replace the text in the arguments in the sequence identified by the placeholder number.

The following screenshot shows an example message with a placeholder:

The following procedure describes how to create...