Notification Tab

Use

On the Notification tab, you define the settings that are to be used to trigger a notification message. PCo always sends a notification message to the destination system when the trigger condition, which you use the expression editor to define here, has been met. See also: Expression Editor and Formulating and Calculating Expressions

For versioned notifications, you can call central functions from this tab, provided the notification was created locally in PCo.

Screen Area: Trigger and Trigger Expression

This screen area is displayed for all tag-based notifications (static and versioned notifications, as well as notification templates).

  1. For static notifications, check that the Enabled indicator has been set if you want the notification to be executed. This is the default setting. For versioned notifications, this indicator cannot be changed directly but is set automatically via the status change upon activation and upon pausing and resuming the output.

  2. Define the trigger conditions that you want to be checked when an event occurs.

    In the notification process the value change of a subscription item is the event that triggers the check of the trigger conditions. You can formulate the condition expression using the subscription items. Depending on the trigger type, the trigger condition must have the value True or False to trigger the notification. For more information, see Trigger Types.

  3. For static and versioned notifications, check the setting in the Triggering Subscription Items screen area. You can use these settings to specify which subscription items are to trigger a notification. For more information, see Triggering Subscription Items.

Screen Area: Versioned Notification

The Versioned Notification screen area is only shown if the selected notification is a versioned notification. The following information is displayed:

Field

Description

Name

Specifies the name of the versioned notification

Description

Specifies the description of the versioned notification

Version

The status of a notification version is displayed in the Version field:

  • Draft

  • Current

  • Current - Paused

  • Expiring

  • Expiring - Paused

For more information, see Versioned Notifications.

Created by SAP MII

The indicator is set automatically if the notification version has been created by SAP MII. In this case, the notification version can only be changed in SAP MII.

The following functions are provided via pushbuttons for a versioned notification:

  • Activate draft versioned notification

  • Pause current versioned notification

  • Resume paused versioned notification

  • Delete versioned notification

  • Unlock notification version created by SAP MII

For more information, see Functions for Versioned Notifications.