Creating Notifications to Make the Hybrid App Server-Initiated

To make the Hybrid App server-initiated, you must modify the WorkflowClient.xml file and create a notification.

1. Create a notification.
   Each notification has two child nodes—Transformation and Methods. 
2. Create a notification node, for example:

   <Notifications>
        <Notification type="onEmailTriggered" targetscreen=" ">
        </Notification>
   </Notifications>

   You can simply copy the Methods from the appropriate object query (for example, findByPrimaryKey) that is generated automatically in the WorkflowClient.xml file, for example:

   <Notifications>
     <Notification type="onEmailTriggered" targetscreen=" ">
        <Methods>
          <Method name="findByPrimaryKey" type="search" mbo="Department" package="apiTesttDepartmentOneToMany:1.0" showCredScreenOnAuthFailure="true" >               
            <InputBinding optype="none" opname="findByPrimaryKey" generateOld="true">                 
              <Value sourceType="Key" workflowKey="Department_dept_id_attribKey" paramName="dept_id" attribName="dept_id" mboType="int"/>               
            </InputBinding>
            <OutputBinding generateOld="true">
              <Mapping workflowKey="Department_dept_id_attribKey" workflowType="number" attribName="dept_id" mboType="int"/>
            […]              
            </OutputBinding>             
          </Method>           
        </Methods>     
     </Notification>   
   </Notifications> 

3. Create a Transformation node.

   You must manually write the Transformation section. The contents depend on how many input parameters the object query has. For each input parameter, you need a corresponding Rule node as a child of the Transformation node. The workflowKey of the Rule node corresponds to the InputBinding’s Value for that input parameter. For example:

   <Notifications>
     <Notification type="onEmailTriggered" targetscreen=" ">
           <Transformation>         
   </Transformation>   
           <Methods>
             <Method name="findByPrimaryKey"
           type="search" mbo="Department"
           package="apiTesttDepartmentOneToMany:1.0" showCredScreenOnAuthFailure="true" >
               <InputBinding optype="none" opname="findByPrimaryKey" generateOld="true">
                 <Value sourceType="Key"
           workflowKey="Department_dept_id_attribKey" paramName="dept_id" attribName="dept_id"
               mboType="int"/>
               </InputBinding>
               <OutputBinding
             generateOld="true">                  
                 <Mapping
           workflowKey="Department_dept_id_attribKey" workflowType="number" attribName="dept_id"
               mboType="int"/>
                […]
               </OutputBinding>
             </Method>
           </Methods>
     </Notification>
   </Notifications>       

4. For each input parameter in the object query, create a corresponding Rule and make sure the workflowKey of the Rule matches the Value of the InputBinding. For example:

   <Notifications>   
     <Notification type="onEmailTriggered" targetscreen=" ">   
           <Transformation>   
             <Rule type="regex-extract"
             source="subject" workflowKey="dept_id" workflowType="number" beforeMatch="dept_id =
             " afterMatch="" format=""/>    
           </Transformation>   
           <Methods>   
             <Method name="findByPrimaryKey"
           type="search" mbo="Department"
           package="apiTesttDepartmentOneToMany:1.0" showCredScreenOnAuthFailure="true" >   
               <InputBinding optype="none" opname="findByPrimaryKey" generateOld="true">   
                 <Value sourceType="Key"
           workflowKey="dept_id"
           paramName="dept_id" attribName="dept_id" mboType="int"/>   
               </InputBinding>   
               <OutputBinding
             generateOld="true">                     
                 <Mapping
           workflowKey="Department_dept_id_attribKey" workflowType="number" attribName="dept_id"
               mboType="int"/>   
                […]   
               </OutputBinding>   
             </Method>   
           </Methods>   
     </Notification>   
   </Notifications>    

5. Save the file.