In the Adeptia Connect, Notification is used to send mail to users about the execution status of a process flow. You can add the Mail Notification activity anywhere in the process flow. You can add more than one Mail Notification activities in a process flow.
The Mail Notification activity is of two types:
- Creating Mail Notification Activity: This type of mail notification is used to send custom email message to any user during execution of a process flow. Any file can be attached to the mail.
- Creating Mail Notification Activity: This type of mail notification is used by the Connect Server to dynamically send summary of a process flow execution.
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Prerequisites
- Mail Server Parameters must be configured before creating Mail Notification activity. To know how to configure the Mail Server Parameters, refer to the Mail Server Parameters section.creating Mail Notification activity.
Steps to create User Defined Message Notification
- On the Adeptia Suite homepage, click the Develop tab.
Go to Services > Miscellaneous and then click Mail Notification. The Manage Mail Notification screen is displayed (see Figure 622).
Figure 622: Manage Mail Notification
- Click the Create New link. The Create Mail Notification screen is displayed.
- Enter the name of the new Mail Notification in the textbox Name. Then, enter the description for the Mail Notification in the textbox Description
Click Configure > OTHERS > Mail Notification.
Click Create Mail Notification.
- Enter the name and description for Context Upload in the in the Name and Description fields.
- Select User Defined Message from the dropdown list Notification Type Notification Type drop-down list.
- Enter subject for the email message in the textbox Mail Subject.
- Select the user(s) to whom you want to send the notification email from the textbox To Adeptia userUser(s).
Enter the recipient(s) email address in the textbox To Email Id(s) (comma separated).
You can select the recipient of the notification mail either by selecting user from To Adeptia userUser(s) or by specifying email address in To Email Id(s) (comma separated) field.
When you select user, the notification mail is sent to the email address specified while creating the user.Enter the email message in the textbox Message.
You can format your messages and also send images (Web Url) and links with it by using HTML tags in Message textbox. Formats that are supported by html work here as well.
For e.g., following are the code snippet to add image and link into mail notification message:For image:
<html><body><h1>heading</h1><img src="http://blog.newrelic.com/wp-content/uploads/java-logo.jpg"alt="some_text"width=200height=200></body></html>
For Link:<html><body><h1>heading</h1><a href="https://www.google.co.in">Visit our Site</a></body></html>|- To send a Select the Attachment checkbox to send the file(s) as attachment, select the Attachment checkbox.
Enter the file path and file name(s) in the textboxes File Path and File Name respectively (see Figure 623).
Figure 623: Create Mail NotificationInfo To send multiple files as attachment, separate the name of files with commas in the File Name field. All these files must be placed in the same specified folder. - To learn about
Expand the Advanced Properties
refer to section Changing Advanced Properties section. - Click the Save button.
section and select the Project from Project drop-down list.
- Click Save.
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Steps to create Process Flow Summary Notification
On the Adeptia Suite homepage, go to Develop > Services > Miscellaneous and then click on Mail Notification. This action will display you the Manage Mail Notification screen (see Figure 624).
Figure 624: Manage Mail Notification Screen
Click the Create New link. This action will display you the Create Mail Notification screen (see Figure 625).
Figure 625: Create New Mail Notification
- Enter the name of the new mail notification in the textbox Name. Then, enter the description for the mail notification in the textbox Description.
- Select Process Flow Summary from the dropdown list Notification Type
Click Configure > OTHERS > Mail Notification.
Click Create Mail Notification.
- Enter the name and description for Context Upload in the in the Name and Description fields.
- Select User Defined Message from the Notification Type drop-down list.
- Enter subject for the email message in the textbox Mail Subject.
- Select the user(s) to whom you want to send the notification email from the textbox To Adeptia userUser(s).
Enter the recipient(s) email address in the textbox To Email Id(s) (comma separated).
You can select the recipient of the notification mail either by selecting user from from To Adeptia userUser(s) or or by specifying email address in in To Email Id(s) (comma separated) field field.
When you select user, the notification mail is sent to the email address specified while creating the user.Select one of the criteria from the
dropdown list Notification CriteriaNotification Criteria drop-down list. All criteria are explained in the below table
below.
Table 1: Notification Criteria
Notification Criteria
Description
Notification Criteria
Description
Running or Executed Successfully
Email is sent only when the process flow is running or executed successfully.
Failure
Email is sent only when the process flow execution is failed. However, if any activity before the mail notification fails, then all activities (including Mail Notification activity) are skipped and no email is sent.Thus, it is recommended to use the Mail Notification activity with the End Event of process flow.
Always
Email is sent whether the process flow execution is successful or failed. However, if any activity before the mail notification fails, then all activities (including Mail Notification activity) are skipped and no email is sent.Thus, it is recommended to use the Mail Notification activity with the End Event of process flow.
To learn about Expand the Advanced Properties refer to Changing Advanced Properties section.
Click the Save buttonsection and select the Project from Project drop-down list.
- Click Save.
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