Method Types

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Method Types

You can use method types in conjunction with methods to make notification requests more specific. Each Notification Manager method is associated with a method type. Method types allow you to group your notification methods into distinct categories, which you can use to limit the number of methods Notification Manager will consider 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 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 via Skytel Email Page via Arch
Two-Way Pager	T	2-Way Pager 1 2-Way Pager 2
Email	E	EMail 1 EMail 2
Network Message	N	Net Send 1 Net Send 2 Speak 1 Speak 2
Voice Telephone Call	V	Voice 1 Voice 2 Voice at home Voice at work Voice in the car

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

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
Specify a TYP value when issuing either of the ADDRESS VOX commands CREATEMETHOD or ALTERMETHOD to represent a type of method.