Alert When Account's Actual Is Greater than Budget

Use this event handler to automatically notify mobile users when the amount of a transaction for a specified account is greater than a specified amount. To receive this notification, users must be subscribed to the OverBudgetAlert publication, specifying the account to watch and the percent over budget that triggers the alert. The notification will be an external email and a message sent to the SyteLine Inbox form.

This is the text of the notification that is sent:


Subject: Over Budget Alert
Body: Account AcctNum - AcctDescription is over the budget by Percentage.	

Variable Information

Variable Description
AcctNum The account number being monitored.
AcctDescription The description of the account
Percentage The specified percentage by which the actual amount is over budget.

Associated Event and IDO

The event OverBudgetAlert for the Journals IDO triggers this notification.

Event Trigger

  • Condition: CONDITION(DATEPART(hour, CURDATETIME()) = 15)
  • Condition Retest Interval: 60
  • Trigger Reset Interval: 85,500
  • Schedule: Fires daily at 3 p.m. Trigger sleeps for 23 ¾ hours, then awakens and checks each minute until 3 p.m. arrives again.