Creating a Notification

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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. You can customize this view to your own needs:

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.