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Notification Service?

pvaibhav — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:51:40 GMT

Friends,Have you planned any Notification Service?Something that will notify users (by email, or SMS) when a particular asset is copied to a particular directory ?Vaibhav

Re: Notification Service?

rwetherall — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:04:40 GMT

Hi Vaibhav,

We do have an email rule that can be applied to a folder. This can be triggered when new content is added to (inbound rule) or removed from (outbound rule) the folder, causing an email to be sent.

It's not a very advanced implementation at the moment, the message sent is fairly static, but there is no reason why it couldn't be improved to, for example, use a template to format the outgoing message. Also there is no reason why we couldn't add an SMS rule to do a similar job.

Adding these features as Rules gives us quite a bit of flexibility as the conditions for rule execution can be quite detailed (especially since in the next release you can add multiple conditions on a rule).

Thanks,

Roy

Re: Notification Service?

pvaibhav — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:58:27 GMT

Is the rule engine you have for sending email, asynchronous?

I was thinking about an asynchronous action menchanism that can be used for notifications and anything else that needs to be done asynchrounously.

Do you have plans for this? Is your mechanism asynchronous?

Vaibhav

Re: Notification Service?

rwetherall — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:12:49 GMT

Hi,

Yes the actions and rules can now be executed asynchronously and I believe this will be exposed in the UI in the next build.

Thanks,

Roy

Re: Notification Service?

pvaibhav — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:15:36 GMT

Great, all I can say is you guys rock! Thanks.

Re: Notification Service?

manuparmar — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:58:58 GMT

How is asynchronous notification handled?

1) I have programmatically set a rule and an action associated with the rule -to be executed asynchronously [using method setExecuteAsynchronously(true)], but could not find any details on when and how many times will the mail be sent asynchronously.

2) Also, it is not very clear if I have to set a rule and an action both as asynchronous.

Re: Notification Service?

manuparmar — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:15:06 GMT

Well exploring further, I got the answer of my 1st question that it is taken care of by java.util.concurrent .ThreadPoolExecutor class .