Filtering messages across viewlets with message criteria configurations

Your queues handle thousands of messages. To make managing messages easier, you can create and apply a message criteria configuration to filter messages in viewlets across your Nastel Navigator system.

When a message criteria configuration is applied, all message actions (browsing, copying, moving, rerouting, and deleting) are filtered based on the configuration.

See Locating a message across all queue managers for an example of when a message criteria configuration is used.

View existing message criteria configurations

1. Click the Settings button located in the toolbar to open the Settings window.
   
2. On the Message Commands tab, under Message Criteria Settings, click Configure to open the Message Criteria window.
   
3. All existing message criteria configurations are listed below Name.
   
4. Click the buttons on the top right to view details of the configuration.

Create new message criteria configurations

1. Follow steps 1-3 in the section immediately above.
2. Click New (the first button). A new blank row appears in the list.
3. Double-click the row to enter a name for the configuration. In the example below, Last Month was entered.
   
4. Click on the new configuration to select it (the row appears dark grey).
5. Use the buttons located on the top right to specify filter configurations. You can specify filters for message descriptor, message descriptor extension, dead letter queue header, and transmission queue header properties. You can also specify message data criteria.
   

 = MD:  Message Descriptor properties
 = MD1:  Message Descriptor 1 properties
 = MDE:  Message Descriptor Extension properties
 = DLH:  Dead Letter Queue properties
 = XQH:  Transmission Queue properties
 = Data:  Message data criteria

6. Click Save. 

Apply a message criteria configuration

Perform the steps below to apply a message criteria configuration. When a message criteria configuration is applied, all message actions (browsing, copying, moving, rerouting, and deleting) are filtered based on the configuration.

1. Click the Settings button  in the toolbar.
2. On the Message Commands tab, select a configuration from the Message Criteria list.
   
3. The selected message criteria configuration is now applied. It remains in effect until you change it.

Remove message criteria configuration

If you no longer want your messages filtered, you can remove the filter configuration. 

1. On the Message Commands tab of the Settings window, select the blank row from the Message Criteria list.
   
2. Click Save Changes. Messages will no longer be filtered.