Customizing report messages

Messages resulting from "Check" or "Change" Actions and shown in the Preflight Report and the Enfocus Navigator can be customized in several ways. You can for example:

Rephrase the default text to make it easier to understand for non-technical people
Add extra information (e.g. what to do in case of problems)
Add a link to a web page with more information

To do so, proceed as follows:

In the attributes of the Action concerned, click the Actions link.
From the menu, select Customize report message.
The Customize Report Message dialog appears.
From the list at the top, select the language for which you want to change the message.
Select All if you want to display a particular message regardless of the PitStop language.

The default message is displayed in the first field. If the message contains variables, you can make them visible by selecting the Show variables checkbox: the variables are enclosed in % signs. To preview the end result (variables replaced with the actual values), you should clear the checkbox again.
Enter a new message in the second field.
If you don't, the default message will be used.

Tip: We recommend copying the message from the first into the second field (making sure Show variables is selected). That way you're sure the variables are written correctly. If a variable contains a typo, it will not be recognized as such and it will be considered a fixed string.
Special cases
- Built-in configuration variables refer to the options in the attributes of the Action. If you clear the Show variables checkbox, you can see what they refer to. In the example below, %ColorSpace% refers to the value chosen from the first list (RGB color), whereas %ObjectType% refers to the value chosen from the second list.
- Square brackets such as "[]" inside a variable indicate that the variable may be replaced with more than one value, depending on what's found in the PDF. For example, "%[]fontName%" means that more than one font name may be mentioned in the message. If written like this, the font names are listed, one after the other. If the square brackets are removed, you'll have a separate message on a separate line for each different font name. See the example below:
- Square brackets enclosing 3 dots such as "[...]" inside a variable refer to a range, e.g. %[...]ActualPointSize% means that the smallest and the largest point size found in the document will be mentioned in the message, separated by three dots. Values inbetween will not be mentioned. If you remove the three dots, all values found in the document will be mentioned (separated by a comma). Alternatively, you could remove the square brackets, resulting in one separate message per point size value. See the examples below:
  
  Note: Make sure to use the correct notation; if you omit one dot, or write 4 dots, this will not work!
- If you want to display a link in a report message, simply type the URL (e.g. http://www.enfocus.com). When users click this URL in the Preflight Report, the corresponding web page will be opened.
- Note that a small number of messages cannot be customized, because they result from Actions that use another mechanism and are generated "on the fly". For these messages, you'll see a warning "This Action has no customizable messages".
- There's one Action with a slightly different user interface: Log Selection. For this Action, no default report message is available. You should enter your custom report message directly in the Attributes section.
Click the navigation button(s) at the bottom of the dialog, to navigate to other messages originating from the same Action and configure them in the same way.
This is the case if the Action has several distinct options, e.g. Check for alternate images allows you to detect either all images with alternates, or images that have an alternate that is default for printing. For each of these options, a separate message is available. Note that Restore Defaults resets all these messages (not only the one that is shown).
Click OK.

If you run the Action on a document, the new message instead of the default message will be displayed.

Note: If you ever want to return to the default message, in the attributes of the Action, click Action > Clear customized report message.