NoTargetPartyIDs (FIX tag 1461)

NumInGroupFIX 5.0 SP2group counter

NoTargetPartyIDs (tag 1461) is a NumInGroup field defined in FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 9 message types, always optionally. Its datatype is NumInGroup, which makes it a repeating-group counter: its value is the number of entries that follow, not a quantity in its own right.

At a glance

Tag: 1461
Name: NoTargetPartyIDs
Datatype: NumInGroup (int)
Dialects: FIX 5.0 SP2
Messages: 9

What the specification says

Identifies the number of target parties identified in a mass action.

Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.

A real message using tag 1461

OrderMassStatusRequest · FIX 5.0 SP2

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIXT.1.1
9	BodyLength	115
35	MsgType	AF	OrderMassStatusRequest
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
584	MassStatusReqID	EXAMPLE
585	MassStatusReqType	1	Status for orders for a security
1461	NoTargetPartyIDs2 entries	2	repeating group
1462	TargetPartyID	EXAMPLE
1462	TargetPartyID	EXAMPLE
10	CheckSum	231

Edit and decode it yourself

Shown with | separators for readability. On the wire FIX uses SOH (0x01), an invisible control byte — and because BodyLength and CheckSum are computed over the actual bytes, the two forms have different checksums. Both are valid and both decode here.

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Generated from the FIX 5.0 SP2 dictionary and verified at build time: it parses and validates with no issues. Open the decoder to try your own message.

Where tag 1461 appears

Requiredness is a property of the message, not of the field: the same tag can be optional in one message and conditionally required in another.

Message	MsgType	Requiredness	Where in the message
MassQuoteAcknowledgement	b	Optional	inside the TargetParties component
OrderMassActionReport	BZ	Optional	inside the TargetParties component
OrderMassActionRequest	CA	Optional	inside the TargetParties component
OrderMassCancelReport	r	Optional	inside the TargetParties component
OrderMassCancelRequest	q	Optional	inside the TargetParties component
OrderMassStatusRequest	AF	Optional	inside the TargetParties component
QuoteCancel	Z	Optional	inside the TargetParties component
QuoteStatusReport	AI	Optional	inside the TargetParties component
QuoteStatusRequest	a	Optional	inside the TargetParties component

Wire format

The number of entries in the repeating group that follows. The next field on the wire is the group's delimiter tag. @boarteam/fix parses the value as a number and reports parse/invalid-int when it does not lex as one; the raw string is kept either way.

Read tag 1461 in TypeScript

decode.tsts

import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix50sp2";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);// NoTargetPartyIDs is a group counter, so the entries live on message.groups —// NOT on message.fields. message.fields[1461] is undefined.const entries = message.groups[1461] ?? [];for (const entry of entries) {  // entry.fields is keyed by tag; entry.groups holds nested groups}

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