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View/Repair message (Post Tab)

Nodinite empowers you to view and repair messages in your Azure Service Bus queue or topic. This feature lets you edit message body and properties, set advanced options, and add custom properties for efficient troubleshooting and message management.

Expect to:

  • ✅ Instantly view and repair message body and properties
  • ✅ Use advanced options for message configuration
  • ✅ Add custom properties for flexible message handling
  • ✅ Streamline troubleshooting and ensure message delivery

💡View and repair the message body and properties.

Either click on the Post tab or click on the View/Repair menu item in the Actions button for the selected message (Active and Dead Letter). The latter preserves the current message body and properties in the Post tab, allowing you to repair the message.
View/Repair Message Menu Item
Example of the 'View/Repair' menu item in the Actions button on selected active message.

From the Post tab, you can submit a new message to the selected target entity (Queue or Topic).
Post message tab
Post message tab with essential send options.

Send a message with the following properties:

  • Subject/Label
  • Message

From within the Advanced accordion, you can also set additional properties on the message to be sent. If you opt to repair an existing message, the properties are pre-populated with the current values of the message. You can then change the values and click on the Post button to send the message.

  • Target entity name - The name of the target entity (Queue or Topic)
  • Message ID - You can set a user-defined Message ID. Leave the field empty for the automatic creation of a unique Guid.
  • Correlation ID
  • Session ID - A string value is required for queues and topic subscriptions with sessions enabled.
  • Reply to Session ID
  • Reply to
  • Dead letter source (read-only) - Name of the queue or subscription that this message was enqueued on, before it was dead-lettered.
  • Encoding - Select the encoding to apply on the message body. The default is UTF-8.
  • Content type
  • Time to live - Enter a time to live (TTL) in the format: days.hours.minutes.seconds, e.g., 0.00:00:30 for thirty seconds.
  • Scheduled enqueue time - The values is preset with some time ago to ensure that the message is sent immediately. You can change this to a future time if you want to schedule the message for later delivery. The time is local to the client and is converted to UTC before sending to the Service Bus.

Advanced options
Advanced options for sending a message to the queue or topic.

In addition, you can also add any number of additional custom properties (Key-Value).

  • Message custom properties

Message custom properties
Message custom properties for sending a message to the queue or topic.

Click the '+' button to add a new custom property. You can also remove existing properties by clicking on the 'x' button next to the property.
Add custom property
Add custom property to the message.

There can be any number of custom properties of the type string. The key is the name of the property and the value is the value of the property. The key must be unique within the message.


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