---
title: "Set up MDM messages with wizard - Direct"
slug: "set-up-mdm-messages-with-wizard-direct"
description: "Create MDM messages effortlessly in Master Data Management Studio with our step-by-step wizard for internal direct master data setups."
tags: ["Task topic"]
updated: 2026-03-20T12:12:16Z
published: 2026-03-20T17:44:34Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/set-up-mdm-messages-with-wizard-direct"
---

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# Set up MDM messages with wizard - Direct

In Master Data Management Studio, you can use the Create MDM message wizard to create the message for an internal direct master data setup. With an internal direct master data setup, you send data from the source (master data) company directly to the target company.

With the wizard, you create the:

- Documents that are used in the MDM message.
- MDM message.

### Steps

1. Click **Master data management** - **Integration design**.
2. In the **Project** field, enter or select the desired MDM project.
3. Click **Projects**.
4. On the **Action Pane**, on the **Design** tab, in the Messages group, click **Create MDM message**.
5. Sub-task: Select document fields.
  1. Click **Select fields**.
  2. Open the page from which you want to select fields for the document.
  3. On the field picker dialog, click **Select fields**.
  4. On the shown page, select the fields to be added to the document.

For each desired field, click the **+** sign.
  5. Click **Done**.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> You can open another page from which to select fields.
  6. Review the selected fields. You can delete the not desired fields.

Click **Submit**.
  7. Click **Next**.
6. Sub-task: Define document information.
  1. Select **No** in the **Create staging** field.
  2. Define the settings for the source document of the 'direct' message.

To do so, fill in the fields in the **Source document** group.

In the **Document** field, type the unique name for the source document.
  3. In the **Application** field, enter or select the desired application for the source document.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> Make sure, the application exists before you start the wizard.
  4. For the 'direct' message, you can use the source document as target document as well.

Select **Yes** in the **Reuse source document** field.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> If you select **No**, you can fill in the fields in the **Target document** group.
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> If you do not fill in the fields in the **Target document** group, on finishing the wizard, only the source document is created. So, no message is created.
  5. Click **Next**.
7. Sub-task: Define message information.
  1. In the **Message** field, type the unique name for the 'direct' message.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> If you do not fill in the message fields, on finishing the wizard, only the defined documents are created. So, no message is created.
  2. In the **Source connector** field, enter or select the desired connector for the 'direct' message.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
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> Make sure, the source connector exists before you start the wizard.
  3. In the **Target connector** field, enter or select the desired connector for the 'direct' message.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
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> Make sure, the target connector exists before you start the wizard.
8. Click **Finish**.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
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> When you have clicked finished, the **Message** page is opened showing the created message.
> 
> If no message is created, the **Document** page is opened showing the source document.

## Related

- [Set up MDM messages with wizard](/master-data-management-studio-set-up-mdm-messages-with-wizard.md)
- [Set up MDM messages with wizard - Staging](/set-up-mdm-messages-with-wizard-staging.md)