Using Notification on certain workflows

[JavierM-Xerox]

Can't really discuss planned FFCore functionality in a public forum. However, I do understand that FFProM had this funcitonality and that it is something that customers would like to use.

[leblanckGGLS]

Hi,

Are there any plans in future builds to have the notification capabilities that Process Manager has added to FFCORE so that setting up a CLI email client would not be necessary?

[JavierM-Xerox]

To answer your question - I have not used another email client (only email functionality in PHP).

[JavierM-Xerox]

Passing job variables should be pretty simple:

Add the following to the parameters

-to email@domain.com -subject "blat subject here" -body "this is my message" -server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -f email@domain.com

You should be able to use $FFxxx$ variables anywhere in that string.

[VVaisanen]

Hi,

sorry to post in an old thread but my question relatates to this...

What CLI email client do you recommend? I'm messing around with blat http://www.blat.net/  and trying to figure out how I can pass the job related variables to the client...

Thanks for your time,

-Ville

[JavierM-Xerox]

Another (simpler) alternative:

- enable notifications for preflight errors

- disable notifications for preflight warnings

- build the preflight profiles to use either warnings or errors depending on whether the customer wants notifications for that particular preflight check

[JavierM-Xerox]

That's currently not possible with the build in functionality. However, it can be implemented as follows:
• Turn off preflight notifications.
• Add a Route node after preflight and route based on the preflight status
• Use the external component with a CLI email client to send the notification.
• If you want to pause the node add another preflight with pause enabled (check for something that will be true for any document - e.g. check for a document that has 1 or more pages)

That should enable what the customer wants.

[JohnW-Xerox]

Hello,

Is there a way to use a notification when a job fails etc. only on CERTAIN workflows? The setup as I see it is to notify in all instances of (for example) a preflight failure in any Workflow.

My customer only wants to be notified of failures in specific workflows. Is that possible?

Thanks

John