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Creating Notifications
Notification objects send messages to email addresses, individual users, or even user groups in an AE system's client. Before creating your notification, you should know
what template to use and which tabs you will want to respond to.
Selecting a Template
AE ships following notification templates: CALL.ALARM, CALL.STANDARD and CALL.MAIL.HTML.
CALL.ALARM is a helpful template for using AE's scripting language for your notification messages and when you want to start with example code that you can configure to fit
your needs. For more information, see Notification - Object Type ALARM.
CALL.STANDARD is helpful template for using the Notification tab in order to define your notification messages. The Notification tab allows you to define messages without
the complexity or powerful benefits of AE's scripting language.
To Consider: Use:
How you want to send messages The Type and other settings on the Attributes tab, and optionally the settings on the Header, Variables & Prompts,
Documentation, Sync and Runtime tabs.
What you want to send The Notification and/or Process tabs.
From the Notification tab you can specify a subject and message body. These fields allow for text and Variable objects, but if
you want to create anything more complex (like returning the calling object's name or putting in a line break), you will want to
use the Process tab instead.
The Process tab is a type-specific tab where processing instructions are stored in the AE's scripting language. If you use the
Process tab, text entered for the subject and message on the Notification tab will be ignored.
Another thing you can define on the Notification tab is how you attach files. The file attachment settings from the Notification
tab can still be used even if you are using the Process tab to specify a subject and message body.
Who you want to send them to The Recipients tab to specify users, user groups, and email addresses. If a calendar keyword is additionally specified, the
receivers will only be notified if the relevant date lies within the calendar's specified period of time. All the specified users are
informed if otherwise - due to the specified calendar conditions - none of the users would be informed.
Procedure
1. Click the button in the toolbar. A window listing all the available object types opens. Select a notification template. To create a notification with predefined
code on the Process tab, select CALL.ALARM.
2. Assign an adequate name and open the Notification object. Then click on the Notification tab
3. Select a notification type and respond to any of the other fields on the Process tab. More detailed information about all the possible impacts is provided in the
Notification Monitor description. Define your subject, message, and attachments using the Notification and/or Process tabs.
5. Optionally specify settings on the Header, Variables & Prompts, Documentation, Sync and Runtime tabs.