Creating Mail Notification Activity

In the Adeptia Suite, 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:

User Defined Message: 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.
Process Flow Summary: This type of mail notification is used by the Adeptia Server to dynamically send summary of a process flow execution.

Creating Notification to Send User Defined Message

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.

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.
Select User Defined Message from the dropdown list Notification Type.
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 user(s).
Enter the recipient(s) email address in the textbox To Email Id(s) (comma separated).
Enter the email message in the textbox Message.
To send a 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 Notification
Click the Save button.

Creating Notification to Send Process Flow Summary

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.
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 textbox To Adeptia user(s).
Enter the recipient(s) email address in the textbox To Email Id(s) (comma separated).
Select one of the criteria from the dropdown list Notification Criteria. All criteria are explained in the table below.

Table 1: Notification Criteria
Click the Save button.