Designer 10.7 | webMethods CAF and OpenUI Development | Working with CAF Events and Notifications | Creating a Notification
 
Creating a Notification
 
Configuring an RSS Notification
You can create an event notification to include an e-mail message, an RSS message, or both. When you create a notification, you must specify the My webMethods Server or custom event type that initiates the notification of a change.
Note:
To configure the notification for RSS after you create it, see Configuring an RSS Notification.
*To create a notification
1. Open the CAF Events Editor as described in Creating a Custom CAF Event.
2. In the CAF Events Editor, click the Notifications tab.
3. Click Add.
4. In the Add New Notification wizard, type a name in the Notification Name text box.
5. (Optional) Type an optional in the Notification Description text box.
6. In the Event Type list box, select an event type, do one of the following:
*Click Next and follow the instructions in the wizard to customize the notification view locations and name, managed bean name, managed bean scope, and Java attributes.
*Click Finish to accept the remaining configuration parameters as defaults.
7. Save your changes.
8. After you click Finish, the wizard creates a notification bean and a notification provider, and opens a template notification view in the editor. The following table lists the properties of the template notification view, that you can customize:
Displayed Text
Control and Description
Email subject text
Text Output. A field for the subject for the e-mail notification.
email@company.com
Text Output. A field for the email address of the sender.
New Notification
HTML Header. A field for the notification header.
Title
Text Output. A field for the title for the RSS notification.
Link
Text Output. A field for the URL for the RSS notification.
Description
Text Output. A field for the description of the RSS notification.
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