InViewOfCommon (FIX tag 328)
InViewOfCommon (tag 328) is a Boolean field defined in FIX 4.4 and FIX 4.2. It appears in 1 message type, always optionally. It is an enumerated field with 2 defined values.
At a glance
- Tag
- 328
- Name
- InViewOfCommon
- Datatype
- Boolean (char)
- Dialects
- FIX 4.4 and FIX 4.2
- Messages
- 1
- Valid values
- 2
What the specification says
Indicates whether or not the halt was due to Common Stock trading being halted.
Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.
A real message using tag 328
| Tag | Field | Wire value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | BeginString | FIX.4.4 | |
| 9 | BodyLength | 69 | |
| 35 | MsgType | f | Security Status |
| 49 | SenderCompID | BOARTEAM | |
| 56 | TargetCompID | COUNTERPARTY | |
| 34 | MsgSeqNum | 2 | |
| 52 | SendingTime | 20240101-12:00:00.000 | |
| 328 | InViewOfCommon | N | Halt was not related to a halt of the common stock |
| 10 | CheckSum | 019 |
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.
Generated from the FIX 4.4 dictionary and verified at build time: it parses and validates with no issues. Open the decoder to try your own message.
Valid values
A value outside this list is not a parse error — the message still decodes — but validate() reports it as validate/value-not-in-enum.
| Value | Meaning | Symbolic name |
|---|---|---|
| Y | Halt was due to common stock being halted | YES / HaltWasDueToCommonStockBeingHalted |
| N | Halt was not related to a halt of the common stock | NO / HaltWasNotRelatedToAHaltOfTheCommonStock |
Where tag 328 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 | FIX 4.4 | FIX 4.2 | Where in the message |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SecurityStatus | f | Optional | Optional | directly on the message body |
Wire format
Y or N. Not 1/0, and not true/false. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string and, for enumerated fields, reports validate/value-not-in-enum when it is not a defined value.
Read tag 328 in TypeScript
import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix44";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);const inViewOfCommon = message.fields[328]?.raw;// e.g. "Y" — Halt was due to common stock being halted// The dictionary also carries the labels:const label = fix.dictionary .fieldByTag(328) ?.enumValues?.find((e) => e.value === inViewOfCommon) ?.description;Other Boolean fields
- 329DueToRelated
- 325UnsolicitedIndicator
- 377SolicitedFlag
- 266AggregatedBook
- 258TradedFlatSwitch
- 411ExchangeForPhysical
- 208NotifyBrokerOfCredit
- 464TestMessageIndicator
- 141ResetSeqNumFlag
- 130IOINaturalFlag
- 123GapFillFlag
- 121ForexReq
- 114LocateReqd
- 113ReportToExch
- 547MDImplicitDelete
- 97PossResend
- 570PreviouslyReported
- 575OddLot
- 43PossDupFlag
- 636WorkingIndicator
- 650LegalConfirm
- 700ReversalIndicator
- 719ContraryInstructionIndicator
- 720PriorSpreadIndicator
Decode this in your own code
The same engine that produced the decoded example above is an Apache-2.0 npm package with zero runtime dependencies. It runs in Node and in the browser, and parse() returns problems as data instead of throwing.
npm i @boarteam/fix @boarteam/fix-dict-fix44