COmanage Registry has a facility for delivering Notifications, which are basically short messages with a timestamp. The following roles are defined for Notifications:
- Actor: The CO Person who generated the Notification, perhaps indirectly.
- Recipient: The CO Person or CO Group the Notification is sent to.
- Resolver: The CO Person who responds to the Notification.
- Subject: The CO 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 CO Person or any member of the CO 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).
The Actor can cancel a Notification before it is responded to.
Subjects can view Notifications about themselves, but are not typically directly notified.
Notifications generate History Records.
It is possible to generate Notifications from the command line. For more information, run
$ ./Console/cake notification