As shown in Adding and Editing Messages, the Scenario Editor uses a Message Editor interface for adding and editing messages. It consists of information about a message’s dialog and type, a tree of its elements, description and attributes of the selected element, and status of all elements.

Dialog

Dropdown menu of available dialogs.

Note Roles display for the selected dialog, with an arrow showing the direction messages travel (which you can click to change).

dialog

Type

Dropdown menu of available Message Types.

type

Tree

Hierarchy of message elements.

Red fields have validation errors.
Brown fields have validation warnings.
Pink fields have children which have validation errors or warnings.
Grey fields are not present in the scenario.
Black fields are present in the scenario.

tree

Description

Description of the element selected in the message tree.

description

Attributes

Table of attributes for the element selected in the message tree.

Tip Each attribute has a tooltip describing its function.

description

Status

Warnings about any problems with the message definition.

Errors are marked in red, and warnings are marked in brown.

A scenario with errors cannot be simulated, while a scenario with only warnings can still be simulated.

status
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