# Custom messages not passing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-messages-not-passing/7056>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 15, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-messages-not-passing/7056 "2013-08-15T17:04:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![davisr19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@davisr19](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/davisr19)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-messages-not-passing/7056/1 "2013-08-15T17:04:42Z")

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When I use binding in a Custom Message, the message that is sent reverts back to the default defined by the Notification block.

This does not occur when the Custom Message does not use binding.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-messages-not-passing/7056/2 "2013-08-15T17:08:43Z")

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You’re talking about the Custom Message field configured on an Alarm, right?

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**Author:** ![davisr19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@davisr19](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/davisr19)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-messages-not-passing/7056/3 "2013-08-15T17:11:23Z")

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Yes, the alarm associated with the tag

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-messages-not-passing/7056/4 "2013-08-15T17:12:54Z")

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Yeah, I can reproduce this… thanks for the report. I’ll fix it for 7.6.3.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-messages-not-passing/7056/5 "2013-08-15T17:20:53Z")

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I take it back, this does work. You probably just don’t have a valid expression configured. There should be something logged to the console on the gateway to this effect when you edit/save the alarm. When this happens, the pipeline ends up acting as if the custom message isn’t defined.

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**Author:** ![adamaustin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@adamaustin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adamaustin)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-messages-not-passing/7056/6 "2013-08-22T20:11:08Z")

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You also need to make sure the Message Mode is Custom:

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/3/e38b601da2fe594d5138baabfa8c8ac7e58fab72.jpeg)