Publishing Events on a Channel or Queue
Use the following procedure to create a new event and publish it on a Universal Messaging channel or queue, using the Command Central web user interface.
To publish an event on a channel or queue
1. In Command Central, go to Environments > Instances > All > Universal-Messaging-instance_name > Administration.
2. Do one of the following:
To publish an event on a channel, from the drop-down menu, select
Channels and then select the channel on which you want to publish the event.
To publish an event on a queue, from the drop-down menu, select
Queues and then select the queue on which you want to publish the event.
3. Click the Publish tab and specify values for the following fields as required:
Property | Value |
Event data | Required. The content of the event. |
Tag | Required only for Protobuf events, otherwise optional. The tag of the event. |
TTL (ms) | Optional. The time-to-live (TTL) of the event in milliseconds. Defines how long the event remains available on the channel or queue. If you specify a TTL of 0, the event remains on the channel or queue indefinitely. |
Persistent | Optional. Whether the event is persistent. |
Transient | Optional. Whether the event is transient. |
Properties | Optional. Click to add event properties. For each property, specify the name, type, and value. |
Number of publishes | Optional. The number of times to publish the event. If you do not select the option, it defaults to 1. |
Publish as a Protobuf event | Optional. Whether to send the event as a Protobuf event. For more information about how to publish Protobuf events, see Publishing Protobuf Events. |
4. Click Publish.
When you start snooping on events on the channel or queue, Command Central displays the event in the snooped events table.
For information about how to snoop on channels and queues, see
Snooping on Channels and
Snooping on Queues.