Responding to Process Notifications
When you receive a notification, it generally means that you have been assigned to complete a setup task. As the current owner of a task, you can:
- reassign the task to someone else
- read full documentation relevant to the task
- open the appropriate setup window and work on completing the task
- indicate to the Wizard that you have completed the task
- instruct the Wizard to skip the task
- instruct the Wizard to backtrack to the previous task
You can see and respond only to those notifications that were sent to you; using the Notifications window, you cannot read the notifications sent to other project team members.
To help you understand task that has been assigned to you, you can get detailed information using the Notifications window. For example, you can:
- read the online documentation corresponding to this step
- read comments a team member recorded about this step
- see how this step fits into the larger implementation process
To document your implementation, you can optionally enter comments related to the data setup of the form, for future reference.
Completing and Skipping a Task
Marking a step "Done" and merely "Skipping" the step are similar from a process perspective; both trigger the system to issue a notification to begin the next setup step. (Of course, if you skipped a step without entering some data that is a prerequisite for the next step, you may not be able to complete that step, which you will learn when you try to open up, enter data into, or save data from the next step's corresponding setup windows.) However, depending upon the kind of completion reporting you want to do, the Done status and the Skipped status will result in different results.
Interpreting a Notification
Each notification's message begins with several pieces of overview information, including information about the notification's context organization and whether the step is required or not. For example, a message might begin with the following text:
Context: OU- Vision Corporation
<Required>
This message tells you that you must complete this step using a responsibility whose Operating Unit is Vision Corporation, and that you should enter setup data appropriate for Vision Corporation. Also, you cannot skip this step.
For more information about context organizations, see: Completing Context-Dependent Steps
The message text displays brief guidelines and hints for setting up data related to the particular form.
Save and Proceed
Save the data which you entered in your system and proceed to view the next notification or start a new process as the case may be.
To respond to a notification
1. Open the Notifications window.
2. Query open notifications.
3. Select a notification.
4. Choose Respond, then choose an appropriate response from the pulldown list. Note that the responses vary from notification to notification.
See Also
Implementing with the Wizard
Launching Implementation Processes
Managing Task Assignments
Using the Implementation Monitor
