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1. Select the item type that you want to create a notification for in the navigator tree, then choose New Notification from the Edit menu. Define your notification activity in the Activity property page that appears.

You can also select a message in the navigator tree and drag and drop the message into the Notifications branch of the same item type to display the Activity property page.

2. A notification activity must have an Internal Name (all uppercase and no spaces) and a Display Name, which is the translatable name that appears in your process diagram. Use the description to provide an explanation about this activity.

Attention: You cannot update the internal name of an activity once it is defined.

Caution: Do not include colons ":" or spaces in your internal name.

3. Indicate the result type (a predefined Lookup Type) of this activity. Result types list the possible results returned by this activity. Your workflow diagram may branch depending on the value returned by your completed activity. See: To Create Lookup Types.

You can choose <None> as the result type if your activity does not return a value, or if your workflow process does not depend on the value returned.

4. Choose an icon that identifies your activity. You can use any icon, as long as the icon is stored in a .ico file, to symbolize the action of an activity. See: Adding Custom Icons to Oracle Workflow.

Choose Browse to view the icon files listed in the workflow icons subdirectory.

You can also drag and drop icon files from the Windows Explorer or File Manager onto an activity in your navigator tree to assign that icon to the activity.

5. Select the name of the message you want this notification to send. See: To Create a Message.

6. If you plan to assign this notification to a role consisting of multiple users and you want to send an individual copy of this notification to each user in the role, then check Expand Roles. If you uncheck Expand Roles, then only one copy of the notification is delivered to the role as a whole. See: Notification Activity.

If you check Expand Roles and you assign a message to this notification activity that includes a message attribute with a source of Respond, you see an additional Function field appear. Use this Function field to specify the name of a custom PL/SQL stored procedure that tallies the responses you get back from each of the recipients of this notification. Specify the procedure using the format: <package_name>.<procedure_name>. See: Voting Activity.

7. Choose Apply to save your changes.

8. Select the Details tab to display and modify the Details property page of the activity. See: To Define Optional Activity Details.

9. Select the Roles tab page to specify the roles that have access to this notification activity. (This functionality will be supported in a future release.)

10. Select the Access tab page to set the access levels allowed to modify this notification. See: Allowing Access to an Object.

11. If you wish to dynamically set the priority of the message that this notification sends (and override the message's default priority), create a special activity attribute whose internal name is #PRIORITY. See: To Dynamically Set the Priority of a Notification Activity.

See Also

To Copy an Activity