Register users for alerts
The AR System Alert User Registration form
The following table describes the fields on the Registration tab of the Alert User Registration form:
Registration tab fields
Field name | Description |
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Registered User | The AR Systemlogin name of the user being registered for alerts. |
Registered Time | The time that the user registered. This is the Modified Date core field and represents the time when the entry was created or modified. AR System uses this field to determine if the user registration has expired and to identify unsent alerts. |
Expiration Time (secs) | The time, in seconds, after which the user's alert registration should expire. If the value is zero, there is no time limit. An escalation runs every 10 minutes to delete expired entries. If an entry has expired but the escalation has not yet run, the user continues to receive alerts. |
Short Description | Used for optional supporting information. If you do not need to use this field, leave the default value N/A in the field. |
Plugin Name | Defines the way alerts are sent for this user registration. The field menu takes its entries from the AR System Alert Delivery Registration form. The Alert API method is installed with AR System, sends alerts to a browser via the AR System Alert API. |
Plugin Values | Defines the destination to which alerts are sent for this user registration.
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Encrypt Plugin Values | Used to store a value that must be encrypted. For, example if a plugin requires a password, store the password in this field. |
ReRegister | A display-only field that allows the entry to be modified with a new expiration time. This field is only used when resetting the Expiration Time in a browser. If the Expiration Time must be set back to its previous value, then the browser will not send the data to the AR System server. Select the ReRegister check box if you want to reset the expiration time so that the browser can send the data to the AR System server. |
Update Sent Flag | An optional status field that controls whether or not to update the Sent Successfully field on the Alert Events form when an alert is successfully delivered. Updating the Sent Successfully field for all Alert Events entries can have a performance impact on a busy server, so this field allows you to manage performance by controlling whether the Sent Successfully field is used. |
The Alert User Registration form contains all the information maintained by the server in earlier releases, as well as new fields to support sending alerts through the web services plug-in or any other alert plug-in.
The Alert User Registration form replaces the internal alert_user table of alert users that the AR System server maintained in earlier releases. An upgrade routine transfers the existing information from the server table to this form at the first server start-up after upgrading. After the data has been transferred to the form, the server table is no longer used. The alert method is determined by the value in the Plugin Name field.