About Notifications
Registry has a facility for delivering Notifications, which are basically short messages with a timestamp. The following roles are defined for Notifications:
- Actor: The Person who generated the Notification, perhaps indirectly.
- Recipient: The Person or Group the Notification is sent to.
- Resolver: The Person who takes an action to address the Notification, or acknowledges it.
- Subject: The Person who the Notification is about.
A Notification can simply require acknowledgment, or it can require resolution. If the Notification only requires acknowledgment, then the Recipient (the Person or any member of the Group) simply views the notification and clicks Acknowledge to dismiss the Notification. If the Notification requires resolution, then the Recipient must take the appropriate action (typically by clicking the URL included in the Notification).
Notifications generate History Records.
Notification Delivery
Web Interface
Notifications appear in the Notification ("bell") menu in the administrative interface. For non-administrators, Notifications can be rendered via the Notifications Dashboard Widget (not yet implemented, CFM-214)
When a Notification is registered, an attempt will be made to send an email message with the Notification's content. This is dependent on the CO having an Outgoing SMTP Server configured, and also on each Person having a suitable delivery address. See Configuring Registry Outgoing Email for more details.