Method Types

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Method Types

You can use method types with the notification requests methods to make these requests more specific. Each Notification Manager method is associated with a method type. These method types allow you to group your notification methods into distinct categories. These categories can limit the number of methods Notification Manager considers when initiating a notification request.

Each method type (or category) is designated by a single letter from B through W. Notification Manager reserves the letter "A" to represent the built-in category containing all defined methods. Some method types are pre-assigned to CA-supplied methods. These methods are shown in the following table:

Website Method Type Description	Method Type Code Assignment	Method Name
Pager	P	TAP 1 TAP 2 Alphanumeric Pager 1 Alphanumeric Pager 2 Numeric Pager 1 Numeric Pager 2 Email Page through Skytel
Two-Way Pager	T	2-Way Pager 1 2-Way Pager 2 2-Way Pager with URL
Email	E	EMail 1 EMail 2 EMail with URL Text Msg through ATT Text Msg through Sprint Text Msg through T-Mobile Text Msg through Verizon
Network Message	N	Net Send 1 Net Send 2 Speak 1 Speak 2 Speak with URL
Voice Telephone Call	V	Voice 1 Voice 2 Voice at home Voice at work Voice in the car

The remaining method type designators are available for creating method types either to categorize site-specific methods or to change the default grouping of existing methods. The available method types are B, C, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, O, Q, R, S, U, and W.

You can set the method type code for a specified method in two ways:

Specify a custom method type code using the Create Method or Modify Method web page on the Notification Website.
To represent a type of method, specify a TYP value when issuing either of the ADDRESS VOX commands CREATEMETHOD or ALTERMETHOD.