Re-assigning approval Task - notification

Hi,
I have developed a custom task for resource request escalation notification and it works fine. The problem is that the method "*reassignApprovalTaskToUser*" automatically triggers the email notification "Notify Task Reassign" (Out of the box) after it is executed but in mycase I have to send an email using custom email notification which is defined in OIM. Any input would be appreciated.
tcRequestOperationsIntf reqIntf = (tcRequestOperationsIntf)getUtility ("Thor.API.Operations.tcRequestOperationsIntf");
reqIntf.reassignApprovalTasksToUser(taskIntKeyArr, managerKey);
Thanks & Regards
Inbaa.
Edited by: Inbaa on Jul 21, 2009 3:22 AM

Hi Dost,
reqIntf.reassignApprovalTasksToUser(taskIntKeyArr, managerKey);
tcDataProvider dataProvider=getDataBase();
tcEmailNotificationUtil sendMail = new tcEmailNotificationUtil(dataProvider);
sendMail.constructEmail("Test-Escalation Notification");
String fromAdd = sendMail.getFromAddress();
sendMail.setFromAddress(fromAdd);
sendMail.sendEmail(escalationEmail);
The above code sends email notification 2 times.
1. method reassignApprovalTasksToUser() - automatically sends email notification using out of the box email definition "Notify Task Reassign".
2.The remaining lines of code also sends an email notification using the email definition "Test-Escalation Notification" which I have created.
So , it sends 2 times.
So how to stop the first one.
Thanks in advance
Inbaa

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