Notification from Alert

Question

Hello Friends,
The business needs notification in the worklist along with email from an event based alert or periodic alert. Is it possible to do this from an alert.
If not, is there any method to set up an event based or periodic alert in the Work flow. Can any one tell how to use the workflow for making alert.
Many many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
We had a similar requirement to send a notification from the alert.
We created the alert and called the conccurent program which will trigger the workflow.
Below are the stepsfor the same:
Create the event/periodic alert and give the action type as "Concurrent Program".and give the concurrent program detials as below
Application :Human Resources
Program Name :XX(Eg:Alert Workflow Initiation CP) (this is a plsql stored procedure type with six parameters for this program )
Arguments:YYY(eg:"N" &person_id "&name" "&job" "&org" "&username")
Below is the sample code to call the workflow from plsql stored procedure
begin
l_item_key := to_char(SYSDATE,'YYMMDDHH24MISS');
wf_engine.CreateProcess
(itemtype => 'IRC_WF',
itemkey => l_item_key,
process => 'PER_APPLICATION_PRC'
l_mail_content := chr(10)||chr(10)||'Dear '||p_name||':'||chr(10)||chr(10)||
'We appreciate your interest in the '||l_job||' position. A member of the Human Resources team will review your information and contact you if your skills and experience is a match for our needs at this time.'||chr(10)||chr(10)||
'Once again, thank you for your interest in employment at XXX.'||chr(10)||chr(10)||
'Sincerely,'||chr(10)||
'XXX';
wf_engine.SetItemAttrText(itemtype => 'IRC_WF',
itemkey => l_item_key,
aname => 'WWPER_MESG_HTML',
avalue => l_mail_content);
wf_engine.StartProcess
(itemtype => 'IRC_WF',
itemkey => l_item_key);
COMMIT;
end;
Get back to me if you need further details
Thanks,
Anuradha
Edited by: user10411683 on Dec 2, 2008 11:12 PM