Notification Features

Within an activity definition, an event can trigger a notification routing in email or a worklist. These features facilitate sending notifications in workflow:

• The Notify toolbar button can be added to any PeopleSoft component.

  With the Notify toolbar button, the user can determine when an event has occurred that requires that someone be notified. The Notify toolbar button opens the Send Notification page, where the user can enter a personal message and send an email or worklist notification to users.

• Notification templates enable functional users to configure unique message text for each component.

  The notification template can include values from the component page (for example, order number and customer name) so that even the predefined text in the notification can be specific to the data on the page. These values are called template variables.

• The BlackBerry Email Response notification setup and polling program enables companies to leverage the functionality of the Research in Motion (RIM) wireless handheld device to send and receive email.

  The email response from the device can trigger business logic in the PeopleSoft system to update or complete a transaction.

• The combination of generic templates and PeopleCode application classes can be used by application developers to extend the delivered notification features for an application.