EventText (FIX tag 868)

At a glance

Tag

868

Name

EventText

Datatype

String

Dialects

FIX 4.4 and FIX 5.0 SP2

Messages

59

What the specification says

Comments related to the event.

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

A real message using tag 868

Where tag 868 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.

Wire format

Free-form text. Any byte except the SOH separator is legal, so values are not trimmed or case-folded on the wire. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.

Read tag 868 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 field = message.fields[868];field?.name;   // "EventText"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a string

Other String fields

• 872InstrAttribValue
• 876CPRegType
• 859ConfirmReqID
• 877UnderlyingCPProgram
• 878UnderlyingCPRegType
• 880TrdMatchID
• 881SecondaryTradeReportRefID
• 848TargetStrategyParameters
• 888UnderlyingStipType
• 889UnderlyingStipValue
• 894CollReqID
• 902CollAsgnID
• 833AsgnRptID
• 904CollRespID
• 830TransferReason
• 907CollAsgnRefID
• 908CollRptID
• 909CollInquiryID
• 825ExchangeRule
• 824TradeLegRefID
• 823UnderlyingTradingSessionSubID
• 913AgreementDesc
• 822UnderlyingTradingSessionID
• 914AgreementID