You can send an email notification from a Notification task. For example, you want to track how long a mapping takes to run from a workflow. You include a Notification task in the workflow to send an email containing the time and date that the Mapping task starts and completes.

Before you configure Notification tasks to send emails, an administrator must enable and configure the Email Service in the Administrator tool.

When you add a Notification task to a workflow, you specify the recipients and configure the notification properties. Recipients include users and groups in the Informatica domain that receive the notification. For an email notification, the properties include email addresses and email content. You can use workflow parameters and variables to dynamically determine the recipients, email addresses, and email content during the workflow.

When a Notification task finishes running, the task passes output data back to the workflow in variables.

When you configure a Notification task, you specify the recipients, the email addresses, the email content, and the output data that the task passes to the workflow. You also set the advanced properties that the task uses when it runs.