Is there a tutorial for setting up custom notifications?

mjtyson · December 16, 2010

Greetings,

After several failed attempts to set up custom email messages on the ISY admin console I realize I need some pointers - there must be something I am missing. Would someone be so kind as to point me to the instructions? Thanks again,

Michel Kohanim · December 16, 2010

Hello mjtyson,

Still working on the documentation!

1. Make sure you have recipient groups under Configuration | Emails & Notifications | Settings/Groups

2. Go to the Customized Content tab, create a new record by clicking the Add button

3. Click on the second column called Customized Content

4. For the subject and body, you have three choices

-- a. Choose from the options in Alert drop down and Common drop down. Alert has variables pertaining to the email when it is initiated by Programs such as the device that triggered the event. Common has system wide veriables

-- b. Type in the text you want in the subject and the body

-- c. Combination of above

5. In your programs, choose Notify then choose the recipient and then the content

Please note that if subject and body are blank, no notifications are sent.

With kind regards,

Miche

mjtyson · December 17, 2010

So far I have set up a recipient under groups that sends a notice to the intended address when I hit test. The problem I am having is when I go to the customizations tab that although I am able to Add a row with the prerequisite "Name" "Customized Content" and "ID" I am only able to edit the "Name" field. When I select/double-click on the other two fields there is no response. Is there a "switch" I need to enable in order for this to work? Thanks again,

mjtyson · December 17, 2010

This may or may not be important - but when I initially select Customizations I get a

"Request Failed" error. Once I press OK the page opens with no entries. If I press add a new row appears - of which only the "name" field is editable.

Michel Kohanim · December 17, 2010

Hello mjtyson,

This is really odd. Clicking on the second field does not bring up a dialog for you?

I really do not know what to say ... can you copy and paste the contents of the Java console ... perhaps there's an exception that would point to the cause.

With kind regards,

Michel

mjtyson · December 18, 2010

Enjoy,

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