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title: "Set up MDM messages with wizard - Staging"
slug: "set-up-mdm-messages-with-wizard-staging"
description: "Create MDM messages for internal staging in Master Data Management Studio, streamlining data transfer from source to target companies efficiently."
tags: ["Task topic"]
updated: 2026-03-20T12:12:11Z
published: 2026-03-20T17:44:34Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/set-up-mdm-messages-with-wizard-staging"
---

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# Set up MDM messages with wizard - Staging

In Master Data Management Studio, you can use the Create MDM message wizard to create the messages for an internal staging master data setup. With an internal staging master data setup, you send data from your source company to a staging journal. The target company triggers the message to send the data from the staging journal to the target company.

With the wizard, you create the:

- Documents that are used in the MDM messages.
- MDM message to send data from the source company to the staging journal ('data to staging' message).
- MDM message to send data from the staging journal to the target company ('data from staging' 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 **Yes** in the **Create staging** field.
  2. Define the settings for the source document of the 'data to staging' message.

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

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

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> Make sure, the application exists before you start the wizard.
  4. Define the settings for the target document of the 'data from staging' message.

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

In the **Document** field, type the unique name for the target document of the 'data from staging' message.
  5. In the **Application** field, enter or select the desired application for the target document of the 'data from staging' message.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> Make sure, the application exists before you start the wizard.
  6. Define the number sequence that is used to create the staging journal IDs.

In the **Number sequence** field, enter or select a value.
  7. For the 'data from staging' message, you can use the staging target document as staging source document as well.

Select **Yes** in the **Reuse staging target document** field.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> If you select **No**, you can fill in the fields in the **Staging source document** group.
> 
> If you do not fill in the staging source document fields, on finishing the wizard, only the staging target document is created. So, no 'data from staging' message is created.
  8. For the 'data to staging' 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.
> 
> 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 'data to staging' message is created.
  9. Click **Next**.
7. Sub-task: Define message information.
  1. Define the settings of the 'data to staging' message. To do so, fill in the fields in the **Message** group.

In the **Message** field, type the unique name for the 'data to staging' message.

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

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> 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 'data to staging' message.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> Make sure, the target connector exists before you start the wizard.
  4. Define the settings of the 'data from staging' message. To do so, fill in the fields in the **Staging message** group.

In the **Message** field, type the unique name for the 'data from staging' message.

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

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

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

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

## Related

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