Email Notification Actions
Overview
You can create one or more Email Notifications for any Universal Controller task. For workflow tasks, you can also specify whether you want the email to be triggered by the workflow itself, the workflow and/or its tasks, or by the tasks only.
In order to generate Email Notifications, there must be an Email connection defined, which provides the Email server name and other pertinent information.
Notifications Based on Events
You can generate notifications based on one or more of the following events associated with the task instance of the task for which you create the notification:
Status or statuses of the task instance
Exit code(s) generated by the program (along with at least one status)
Late start
Early or late finish
Notifications Based on Status
You also can generate notifications based on the status of:
Creating an Email Notification
Step 1 | Display the Task Details of the task for which you are creating the Email Notification. |
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Step 2 | Click the Actions tab. A list of any defined Actions for that task displays.  |
Step 3 | Click the button that displays on the Email Notifications row. The Email Notification Details pop-up displays.
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Step 5 | Click the button to save the record in the Controller database. |
Step 6 | If appropriate, repeat these steps for any additional Email Notifications you want to create. |
Email Notification Details Field Descriptions
The table below describes the fields and buttons that display in the Email Notification Details.
Field Name | Description |
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Action Inheritance | |
Status | The status of this task, by itself or together with an exit code, that will trigger this Email Notification action. You can specify as many statuses as needed. |
Exit Codes | |
On Late Start | |
On Late Finish | |
On Early Finish | |
On Projected Late | |
Description | Description of this action. |
Action Criteria | This section contains criteria for performing the action. |
Action Details | This section contains additional details about the action. |
Email Template | |
Email Template Variable | |
Email Connection | |
Reply-To | |
To | |
CC | |
BCC | |
Subject | |
Body | |
Report | Report to attach to this notification. |
Report Variable | |
List Report Format | Report format Options:
If the attached report is not a List type report, this option will be ignored. |
Attach Local File | |
Local Attachments Path | |
Local Attachment | |
Attach Standard Output | |
Attach Standard Error | |
Attach Remote File | |
Attach Job Log | For z/OS tasks only; attach any job logs generated by the associated task. |
Start Line | |
Number of Lines | |
Scan Text | |
File Name | |
Buttons | This section identifies the buttons displayed above and below the Action Details that let you perform various actions. |
Save | Saves a new Action record in the Controller database. |
Save & New | Saves a new record in the Controller database and redisplays empty Details so that you can create another new record. |
Save & View | Saves a new record in the Controller database and continues to display that record. |
New | Displays empty (except for default values) Details for creating a new record. |
Update | |
Delete | |
Refresh | Refreshes any dynamic data displayed in the Details. |
Close | Closes the Details pop-up of this action. |