Notification Template

Definition

The notification template is a copy template for notification messages. You need to create the notification template in PCo. For PCo to create a notification template, you need to select the Template checkbox in the dialog box when you are adding the notification.

Use

You only need to create the notification template in the case of a remote subscription, for example, if you want to connect a Business Suite system or a WebSocket client to PCo as a destination system and want to use the notification process. See also: Connection of External Data Sources to Business Suite Applications and Process Steps for Remote Subscription.

The notification template contains all parameters that are required for a subscription and for the later notification messages, such as:

• Trigger conditions

• Lifetime of subscription

• Settings for reliable message delivery

• Destination systems

For a remote subscription, you do not subscribe a tag in the PCo Management Console but in the runtime of the agent in the connected destination system. The subscribed tags are displayed on the Subscription tab of the agent instance. The destination system must allow query commands for creating, changing, resubscribing to, and deleting a remote subscription.

If you create a notification by remote subscription from a notification template in the runtime of the agent, the notification created in this way uses the settings from the notification template. The notification is then ready for use and if there are value changes, it creates notification messages that correspond to the defined parameters.

Structure

The following tabs are available:

• Notification tab

  Here you can set the trigger conditions of a notification template analogous to those of a regular notification. (See: Notification Tab.)

• Remote subscription tab

  You can define the lifetime of the remote subscription here. You create the remote subscription itself in the connected destination system. (See: Remote Subscription Tab

• Message delivery tab

  You can specify here how you want PCo to deliver notification messages. (See: Message Delivery Tab.)

• Destinations tab

  On the Destinations tab, you enter the destination system for the notifications. (See: Destinations Tab.)