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Notification Task step

A Notification Task step sends a notification to specified recipients.

You can configure the Notification Task step to send an email notification. For example, you can send an email notification to inform recipients about the number of success rows and error rows that were encountered in a Data Task step of a taskflow.

You can define properties for the Notification Task step to configure the email recipients and email content. You cannot use distribution lists in the

Email To

Email Cc

, and

Email Bcc

fields.

The following sections describe the Notification Task step properties:

General properties

In the general properties, you can specify a descriptive name for the Notification Task step.

The name can contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores (_), spaces, and Unicode characters. The name can't contain curly brackets {}.

Notification Task properties

You can configure the following Notification Task step properties:

Notification Method: The type of notification to be sent.

The value of this field is set to
Email
by default. You cannot edit this value. The other values are reserved for future use.
Email To: Required. The primary recipients for the email notification.

Use one of the following options to specify the value for this field:

Content
. Enter one or more valid recipient email addresses. You can also add fields that contain valid email addresses. Separate email addresses and fields with a comma (,) or a semicolon (;).
Field
. Select the field that the Taskflow Designer uses to write the email addresses into this field when this step executes. You can select an input field or a temporary field that was added in any other step in the taskflow.
Formula
. Open the formula editor to specify a formula that calculates the value for this field.

Default is
Content
.
Email Cc: The recipients who need to be sent a copy of the email notification.

Use one of the following options to specify the value for this field:

Content
. Enter one or more valid recipient email addresses. You can also add fields that contain valid email addresses. Separate email addresses and fields with a comma (,) or a semicolon (;).
Field
. Select the field that the Taskflow Designer uses to write the email addresses into this field when this step executes. You can select an input field or a temporary field that was added in any other step in the taskflow.
Formula
. Open the formula editor to specify a formula that calculates the value for this field.

Default is
Content
.
Email Bcc: The additional recipients who need to be sent a copy of the email notification. The recipients in the
Email To
and
Email Cc
fields will not be able to see the recipients in the
Email Bcc
field. If the field contains more than one recipient, the recipients will not be able to see the other recipients in the
Email Bcc
field.

Use one of the following options to specify the value for this field:

Content
. Enter one or more valid recipient email addresses. You can also add fields that contain valid email addresses. Separate email addresses and fields with a comma (,) or a semicolon (;).
Field
. Select the field that the Taskflow Designer uses to write the email addresses into this field when this step executes. You can select an input field or a temporary field that was added in any other step in the taskflow.
Formula
. Open the formula editor to specify a formula that calculates the value for this field.

Default is
Content
.
Email Subject: A short and descriptive subject that introduces the email.

Use one of the following options to specify the value for this field:

Content
. Enter a subject for the email.
Field
. Select the field that the Taskflow Designer uses to write the email subject into this field when this step executes. You can select an input field or a temporary field that was added in any other step in the taskflow.
Formula
. Open the formula editor to specify a formula that calculates the value for this field.

Default is
Content
.
Email Content Type: The type of formatting that you want to use for the email content.

Select one of the following values:
HTML
. Select
HTML
to use formatting options such as bold, italics, underlines, lists, indentations, and fonts. You can also insert tables and links.
Plain Text
. Select
Plain Text
to add regular text without any formatting and special layout option.

Default is
Plain Text
.
Email Body: The content that you want to send in the email.

Use one of the following options to specify the value for this field:

Content
. Enter content for the email body.
You can click
Edit Content
to open a rich text editor for formatting the content.

The email content appears within HTML tags on the
All Jobs
,
Running Jobs
, and
My Jobs
pages.

Field
. Select the field that the Taskflow Designer uses to write the email body into this field when this step executes. You can select an input field or a temporary field that was added in any other step in the taskflow.
Formula
. Open the formula editor to specify a formula that calculates the value for this field.

Default is
Content
.