Creating alerts, tasks, or notifications from an application

The Activities engine is the component that handles alerts, tasks, and notifications as generated by Event Management and Workflow.

But any application that is connected to ION can create alerts, tasks, and notifications in the Activities engine directly. This is done by sending and receiving Pulse BODs such as. PulseAlert, PulseTask, PulseNotification.

This section explains how to create and manage alerts, tasks, and notifications through Pulse BODs.

From an application you can perform these actions:

Create alerts, tasks, or notifications.
Receive status updates for an alert, task, or notification.
Cancel a previously created alert, task, or notification.

Creating alerts, tasks, and notifications is not limited to applications that can send or receive BODs. For example, you can use the corresponding type of connection point to create alerts through a JMS message queue or by reading from a database.