Creating custom notifications for cases
This use case describes how to create notifications in BMC Helix Business Workflows.
Scenario
BMC Helix Business Workflows enables you to create custom notifications for your company according to your requirements.
Consider a scenario where a case agent who has access to a case changes its priority to Critical and the case assignee must be notified about the change. You create a custom notification for case priority change and whenever the priority of a case is changed to Critical, the case assignee is notified.
Roles involved in this use case
Agents with the following roles perform certain tasks in this use case:
- Case Business Analyst
- Case Agent
Workflow
The following figure provides an overview of creating a notification:
The following table lists the tasks that you need to perform to create a notification for a case:
Task | Action | Product | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Create an event. | BMC Helix Business Workflows | Define the event details like name, status, accessibility, and so on. | |
2 | Create a notification template. | Define the template details like name, associated event, recipients, localized messages, and so on. | ||
3 | Create a process. | BMC Helix Innovation Studio | Define a trigger condition for the notification and to associate an event with the process. | |
4 | Register a process. | BMC Helix Business Workflows | Ensure that the process is available in BMC Helix Business Workflows and you can use it in a Flowset. | |
5 | Define a Flowset. | Use the process that triggers a notification for a specific line of business. | ||
6 | Create a case template. | Associate a Flowset with a case template so that when an agent creates a case by using this case template, the Flowset is also associated with the case. |