Subscription Management 

Use

You use this function to maintain application-specific information about subscribers that are notified when events (actions) are triggered on business objects in CAF.

Go to http://<host>:<port>/caf  ®  Administrative Tools  ®  Subscription Management to access the tool.

Integration

You use the Subscription Management tool as a part of the eventing and notification process in CAF. See Service Eventing and Notifications for more information.

Features

The Subscription Management tool in the CAF RT Configurator can be divided into a:

●     Tree list of application and groups using notification subscriptions

●     Tabular list of subscription information

●     General subscription tab pages, listing detailed information about the subscribor

Applications and Groups

The applications and groups list is arranged in a tree format and contains only two levels. By expanding the first-level application node, you can see a list of all business objects (groups) associated with the application.

If  the group and business object names are identical, all subscriptions in the group will process a notification event when the business object is modified.

Subscription List

The Subscription table lists short, descriptive information about notification subscriptions including actions that can be applied to a selected subscription when eventing takes places.

●     Activity, ID, Description

By clicking the checkbox in the Activity column, you enable the notification subscription for the instance that is listed in the id column. In the column Description, you can see a short description of what action is triggered when the instance is activated.

●     Status

In the column Status, different icons appear depending on the status associated with the subscription. An overview of their meanings are listed in the table below.

Status Icon	Description
	A green traffic light indicates that a subscription is registered, valid, and enabled.
	A red square indicates that a subscription is registered, but not valid. It could be that some of the subscriptions custom classes or an application itself cannot be resolved on the server.
	A grey diamond indicates that a subscription has been deployed, but it has not yet been registered.
	A yellow triangle indicates that a subscription is registered and valid; however, it is disabled.

●     Detail and Actions

To view general subscription information, select  with the quick info text View/Edit Current Subscription to view in the Details column. To edit, click register (“unregister” will replace it) in the Actions column, and select with the quick info text View/Edit Current Subscription.

General Subscription

The General Subscription dialog opens after you select View/Edit Current Subscription. It consists of  three tab pages.

●     General

You can see information describing the subscription, such as ID, Application, Group, Description, and Status. Most of the information is retrieved from the CAF metadata, but you can enter or change the description.

●     Recipients

You can see the notification recipient. The person who is to receive the notification is decided on code level and cannot be changed during runtime.

●     Template

On this tab page, you can see a list of all template files which exist at the notifications repository on SAP KM. You can request these files by choosing Request Files and add or change the description.