{"id":12,"date":"2007-12-03T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supportingelement.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/03\/passing-parameters-to-payroll-messages\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T06:34:00","slug":"passing-parameters-to-payroll-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/03\/passing-parameters-to-payroll-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing Parameters to Payroll Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThere is a common gotcha when attempting to pass parameters to a Payroll Message using the &#8220;MSG BINDn PTR&#8221; elements.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you get error number 508 from Message Set number 17005 saying &#8220;&#8230; Element pointer # has not been set.&#8221;, there is a good chance you have come across this issue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen passing your parameter to the &#8220;MSG BINDn PTR&#8221; System Element (e.g. &#8220;MSG BIND1 PTR&#8221;) it is important that you set the element attributes for both the parameter being passed and the &#8220;MSG BINDn PTR&#8221; System Element to the &#8220;Use Element Number&#8221; setting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_jye0NzelumM\/R1fanCLElCI\/AAAAAAAAAD8\/6PmGxiQDJN0\/s1600-h\/PayMessageParam1.GIF\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:hand;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_jye0NzelumM\/R1fanCLElCI\/AAAAAAAAAD8\/6PmGxiQDJN0\/s320\/PayMessageParam1.GIF\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo set this value select the &#8220;Attributes&#8221; icon next to the element.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_jye0NzelumM\/R1fafSLElBI\/AAAAAAAAAD0\/QhagIwaijVE\/s1600-h\/PayMessageParam2.GIF\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:hand;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_jye0NzelumM\/R1fafSLElBI\/AAAAAAAAAD0\/QhagIwaijVE\/s320\/PayMessageParam2.GIF\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nChange the &#8220;Value\/Pointer Selection&#8221; to &#8220;Use Element Number&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_jye0NzelumM\/R1fZ_SLElAI\/AAAAAAAAADs\/BmLKyV4jPUE\/s1600-h\/PayMessageParam3.GIF\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:hand;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_jye0NzelumM\/R1fZ_SLElAI\/AAAAAAAAADs\/BmLKyV4jPUE\/s320\/PayMessageParam3.GIF\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis links\/points the &#8220;MSG BINDn PTR&#8221; to the parameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a common gotcha when attempting to pass parameters to a Payroll Message using the &#8220;MSG BINDn PTR&#8221; elements. If you get error number 508 from Message Set number 17005 saying &#8220;&#8230; Element pointer # has not been set.&#8221;, there is a good chance you have come across this issue. When passing your parameter\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/03\/passing-parameters-to-payroll-messages\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,12,13,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-configuration","category-global-payroll","category-message-catalogue","category-message-parameter","category-payroll-message","category-peoplesoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}