Custom error message from a validator

I have two validators on my component. The first is a METHOD CALL that I pass some of the component values as parameters, do a series of checks and return a 0 for not valid, a 1 for valid and a corresponding message into two variables.

The second validator is an inline script that checks the values in the two variables. If the first is 0 it returns "16" and I want to display the returned message as the error message. I set the error message as sMyErorrMsg and specified the message as: (tried each of these variations)

%1 - and specified my variable IDM_Return_Message in the Sub Parms.

%v(IDM_Return_Message)

Basically, what i get for my error message is the name of my variable and not it's content.

Took a screen shot, not sure if it is readable.

This is basically the error message I get

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In your validator sub parms try referencing the variable with V(IDM_Return_Message).

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Thank you. I tried that and it showed with nothing in the message. However, based on your suggestion and re-reading the Help for Message strings I tried two things.

1 - I removed the _ from the variable name. Changed it to IDMReturnMessage

2 - I played around with different string messages. The error message property I used was m% and its string value was Error: %1 in the string value. I would get Error: (nothing following Error:)

so I changed that to be Error: V(%1)

Now I am getting my message!

Thank you very much for your help!

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