Using Packages › Notify Users

Notify Users

The notify process lets you send a mail message to individual users or all members of one or more user groups.

To notify a user

1. Navigate the Workbench to the state that has the notify process you want to execute.
2. Right-click the state, and select notify process from the shortcut menu.

   The notify process dialog appears.

   Note: The lowercase italic text indicates the process dialog name by the process type, since the process execution dialog names differ to each site.

3. Complete the dialog fields:

   Mail Utility

   Names a mail program and any arguments you want to supply when the program is invoked. Specify a full path to the program.

   • On UNIX and Linux clients, CA Harvest SCM searches for a path in the PATH variable of the user executing the process.
   • On Windows clients, the mail program is executed on the server and must be in the path of the user who started the server.

   Subject

   Specifies a default subject. The subject appears on the subject line of the email message when it is sent. You can modify the content of this field. For AIX and Linux platforms, the Subject field cannot contain double quotes.

   Mail Message

   Specifies a message to be sent by this notify process.

   For example, if this process is going to be used to notify a manager that a package has been promoted, you can specify the appropriate message in this field. If the notify process is being linked to another process, you can use system variables in the messages to represent various parameters.

   When you use the package or version system variable in this field, you can right-click packages on the Workbench and select a notify process from the shortcut menu; the package or version names are listed in the notify message.

   Display

   Specifies a default action to be taken with any general or error outputs generated by the notify process by selecting an option in the Output and Errors menus. The choices are Display or Discard. All output is automatically appended to the output log if the Display choice is selected.

   Users to Notify

   Specifies the users who receive the notification. You can add a user to the list by clicking Add, selecting the user, and clicking OK. You can remove a user from the list by selecting the user and clicking Remove.

   User Groups to Notify

   Specifies the user groups who are notified. To be notified, users in the group must have Use Project access to the project unless they are listed in the Users to Notify list. You can add a user group to the list by clicking Add, selecting the user group, and clicking OK. You can remove a user group from the list by selecting the user group and clicking Remove.

4. (Optional) Click Note to view information about the process. Click OK.

   The mail message is sent.