Processing a Notification Response (Oracle Workflow API Reference)

Oracle Workflow API Reference
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Processing a Notification Response

After a recipient responds, the Notification Details web page or a notification mailer assigns the response values to the notification response attributes and calls the notification Respond( ) API. The Respond( ) API first calls a notification callback function to execute the notification activity's post-notification function (if it has one) in VALIDATE mode. In this mode, the post-notification function can validate the response values before accepting and recording the response. For example, if the notification requires an electronic signature, the post-notification function can run in VALIDATE mode to verify the response values and inform the user of any errors before requiring the user to enter a signature. If the post-notification function raises an exception, the response is aborted. See: Post-notification Functions.

Next, Respond( ) calls the notification callback function to execute the post-notification function in RESPOND mode. The post-notification function may interpret the response and perform tightly-coupled post-response processing. Again, if the post-notification function raises an exception, the response is aborted.

If no exception is raised, Respond( ) marks the notification as closed and then calls the notification callback function again in SET mode to update the corresponding item attributes with the RESPOND notification attributes values. If the notification message prompts for a response that is specified in the Result tab of the message's property page, that response value is also set as the result of the notification activity.

Finally, Respond( ) calls WF_ENGINE.CompleteActivity( ) to inform the engine that the notification activity is complete so it can transition to the next qualified activity.

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