Creating Custom Message Types

Custom message types enable you to publish and subscribe to information from your own products.

Note:

You must register your product with Foundations before you can use the message types you create. See Registering Products with Foundations.

Before creating message types, decide on the structure of the messages and the naming convention. If you do not specify a parent, the message is created at the root level. You can view the message type hierarchy from the Foundations Setup tab.

To create a custom message type:

1. On the Message Types tab, click New Message Type.
2. Enter a name for the message type.
3. Enter a description for the message type.
4. Enter the parent message type or leave it blank to create the message type at root level.
5. Click Save. The message type is displayed.

Now that your message type has been created, you can create publications and subscriptions within it where you can define messaging relationships. For more information, see Creating a Messaging Relationship.