How Are Notifications Sent Out Of The System?

In addition to processing incoming notifications from third parties, the system also sends notifications to third parties to provide them with information (and to ask them for information). It is also possible to use notifications to send information to other applications within your company.

A Notification Download Staging (NDS) record is created for every notification that is sent to the outside world. NDS records are created by workflow events (i.e., the event's activation algorithm creates a NDS record). Consider the following examples:

• Many workflow processes exist to process incoming notifications. These processes typically contain workflow events that create –NDS records to communicate with service providers. If you look at the workflow processes described under Designing Workflow Process Templates, you will see many such examples.
• When something noteworthy happens, the system may need to tell a third party about it. Or perhaps you have third party software, which contains information from the system and your company needs to keep the information in sync.