Description The Show a Message action simply displays a message box with the text you specify. This can be useful for providing feedback during a tasks execution. The Show a Message action is also frequently used to debug tasks in under construction because it can easily be used to display the value of a variable.	Show a Message dialog

Parameters

Message to Display
The text that will displayed on the message box when it is run. You may, of course, also specify a variable here by entering !!VARIABLENAME!!, the variable will be resolved at runtime to display its contents. Click here for more on using variables.

Bring message to front of all other windows
When selected, the message box will force itself to the front of all other windows on the system. This is useful in situations where you are using other applications when the task runs so that you will still see the message box (as opposed to the message box going behind the currently running application).

Notes

On Windows 98 and Windows 2000, the Bring message to front of all other windows option may not work reliably. This is because Microsoft removed the software developers ability to force it's windows or dialog boxes above applications that are currently in use by the user, instead the Window title simply flashes" in the running task bar (next to the Start Menu).

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