Identifying Notification Formats and Messages

This section discusses how to identify notification formats and messages.

A notification is an email message that can consist of the three elements:

• Message text

• Action line

• Time requirement

Although these components are optional, notifications are most effective when they combine all three. Because notifications take the form of email messages, it is important that the message audience (supervisors, compliance supervisors, and compliance managers) have valid email addresses set up within their user profiles. Also, workflow must be activated for each employee and for the system in general.

Notice that the Hire check box is selected, indicating that the notification message, action and time limits shown in the exhibit should appear in a notification to a new hire.

The format of a notification message and a resultant sample email is shown in this table:

Message Line	Message Format
One	EmplID; Name; Professional Compliance Type
Two	Message: notification text message
Three	Action: notification action text
Four	Time limit (days) : action time limit