WF_NOTIFICATION.send

Question

Hi All,
I am trying to use WF_NOTIFICATION.send for the 1st time. The requirement is that I have following piece of code in my pl/sql package which is called form the function activity of the workflow. The following code is inside the loop of the supplier list. So I want to send the notification to each of the supplier picked up in the loop.
If it not giving me any error in pl/sql or workflow, with debug I have checked it it getting correct value for l_tp_contact but still when I log-in as the supplier (user) in the worklist there is no message to that supplier.
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l_notification_id := WF_NOTIFICATION.send (role      => l_tp_contact,
               context     => p_itemtype||':'||p_itemkey||':'||to_char(p_actid),
                              msg_type      => 'PONAWARD',
                              msg_name      => l_message_name);
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Can some one please help.
Thanks!

Answer 1

I am guessing, because I haven't done this with PL/SQL code before, but when you say you are looping through suppliers, is this a loop in your PL/SQL or a loop in the workflow? I have had problems before with notifications not being generated from inside a workflow loop because I had my On Revisit set incorrectly (Reset instead of Loop) on the notification step.
Also, is the notification a response required notification or an FYI notification? Where the notification is an FYI, the status of the notification can be updated when generating the email, so querying open notifications on the supplier's worklist could be missing it where the email has been generated.
A good check for both of these is to see if you can find anything in the WF_NOTIFICATIONS table for these notifications?
theFurryOne