Supported features

Most features of the Activities engine are supported when creating an alert, task, or notification through a process BOD. This table shows which features of the Activities engine are supported when creating an alert, task, or notification through a Process BOD.

Feature	Process PulseAlert	Process PulseTask	Process PulseNotification
Message (Description)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Priority	N/A	Yes	N/A
Defined sequence of data elements	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hierarchy of data	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data labels	Equal to names	Yes	Yes
Read-only values	Yes	Yes	Yes
Editable values	N/A	Yes	N/A
Data-type dependent controls	N/A	Yes	N/A
Action buttons	N/A	Yes	N/A
Distribution to users	Yes	Yes	Yes
Distribution to external contacts (email)	Yes	N/A	Yes
Distribution to groups	Yes	Yes	Yes
Escalation policies	No	No	N/A
Translations	No See note 1.	No See note 1.	No See note 1.
Locales	Yes See note 2.	Yes See note 2.	Yes See note 2.
Hyperlinks	N/A	Yes See note 3.	Yes See note 3.
Document references with drill-back	Yes	N/A	N/A
Attach notes	Yes	Yes	N/A
Add attachments	Yes See note 4.	Yes See note 4.	Yes See note 4.
Start workflow from alert	No	N/A	N/A

Notes:

1. Translations are supported for Description and Label fields, in combination with the languageID attribute. An occurrence of a Description or Label field that does not have the languageID attribute is called the 'default value' and is required. Optionally, you can add additional occurrences of these fields, called 'translations', each having a languageID attribute filled with a language. At runtime, Infor Ming.le matches the display language from the user's regional settings with the language code from the translations and shows the corresponding string. If there is no match, the default value is displayed.

   Language codes are the codes used by Microsoft.

   See ISO 639 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639

2. Parameter values are displayed in Infor Ming.le using the user's local settings, such as date and time format, time zone, and number format. This depends on the parameter's data type. Data in the Description element is not formatted by ION, but displayed as is. For example when the Description contains: "On 24-12-2012T14:50:40Z the total amount was 1,234.56".
3. For tasks and notifications, you can use a hyperlink as a parameter value. In that case, use data type STRING. A string is presented as a hyperlink to the Infor Ming.le user if it starts with 'http://' or 'https://'.
4. You can use attachments in Infor Ming.le widgets, also for items that are created using a Process BOD. But you cannot include them in a BOD. For tasks and notifications, you can include hyperlinks in the BOD.