Defining Notification Templates for Approvals
To set up notification templates for approvals, use the Generic Templates (WL_TEMPLATE_GEN) component.
These topics provide an overview of generic template definitions and list the pages used to define notification template definitions.
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Page Name |
Definition Name |
Usage |
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WL_TEMPLATE_GEN |
Enter generic template definitions. |
Anytime that the Approval Framework triggers an email notification, it constructs the email based on the notification rules that you have set on the Configure Transactions page. The engine bases the email on the template that you specify in the Template Name field in the Notifications group box on that page.
If you are using bind variables (%1, %2, %3 and so on) in your email notification template, you must also create an SQL object through PeopleTools Application Designer. The Approval Framework uses this SQL object to populate the bind variables that you define in your notification template. You assign an SQL object to an email notification through the SQL Object identifier fields on the Configure Transactions page.
The Approval Framework reserves the %1 bind variable as a placeholder for an auto-generated link within the email notification to an application component. If you do not want to display the auto-generated link in your email notification, exclude the %1 bind from the template variables that you list on the Generic Template Definition page.