Creating an E-mail Subscription Starting Point

Create an e-mail subscription starting point.

Note: Each Mobile Workflow Forms Editor can have only one e-mail subscription starting point.
  1. In the Mobile Development perspective, select File > New > Mobile Workflow Forms Editor.
  2. Follow the instructions in the New Mobile Workflow Forms Editor wizard:
    Field Description
    Enter or select the parent folder Select the mobile application project in which to create the mobile workflow form.
    File name Enter a name for the mobile workflow form. The extension for mobile workflow forms is .xbw.
    Advanced Link the mobile workflow form to an existing file in the file system.
    Link to file in the file system Click Browse to locate the file to which to link the mobile workflow form. Linked resources are files or folders that are stored in the file system outside of the project's location. If you link a resource to an editor, when you select the editor, the resource is selected in the WorkSpace Navigator. Conversely, when you select the resource in the WorkSpace Navigator, the editor is selected.
  3. In the Starting Points page, select Responds to server-driven e-mail notifications.
  4. In the E-mail Processing wizard, click Search to locate the mobile business object with which to associate the e-mail starting point.
  5. In the Search for Mobile Business Object wizard, click Search.
  6. Select the mobile business object from the list, and click OK.
  7. In the E-mail Processing wizard, select an Object query and click Next.
    Note: Object queries that return result sets are not supported.
  8. Enter the contents for a sample e-mail message, and click Next.
  9. Select the text that will serve as the matching rule, right-click and select Select as Matching Rule and click Next.
  10. From Parameters, select each parameter for which there is a matching rule, and specify from where the parameter receives data in the Parameter Properties.
    Note: The supported syntax for the regular expression is that used by the C# Match() methods(s) of the class System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.
    Property Description
    Field Select the field from the e-mail message from which the parameter receives data, for example, Subject. Selecting Subject indicates that the parameter receives data from the subject line of the e-mail message.
    Start tag Enter or select the text for the start tag regular expression, for example, "Approval Request\(".
    End tag Enter or select the text for the end tag regular expression, for example, "\)was sent".
    Format Supports locale-specific parameter extraction. For example, you can indicate that a given date parameter will be in the form of YYYY-MM-DD in the e-mail, and another date parameter will be in the form of YYYY-DD-MM. This applies to the DateTime type.
    Sample e-mail field contents The value of the field previously chosen as the matching rule in the Specify Matching Rules page of the wizard.
    Value extracted from sample e-mail field contents The value the start tag and end tag matching rules would arrive at given the sample field value.
  11. Click Finish.
Parent topic: Starting Points