Notify

The Notify activity allows a process instance to send data to a corresponding process instance containing a Wait activity or Receive Notification process starter. The Notify Configuration resource specified on the Configuration tab and the key specified on the Input tab create the relationship between the Notify activity and the corresponding Wait or Receive Notification. The data specified in the Notify’s input is sent to the Wait or Receive Notification that specifies the same Notify Configuration resource and has the same value for the key.

Field	Description
Name	The name to appear as the label for the activity in the process definition.
Description	Short description of the activity.
Shared Configuration	The Notify Configuration shared configuration resource that defines a data schema for this activity. See Notify Configuration for more information. The Notify Configuration resource is required, but the schema can be empty if you do not want to pass data between processes.

Field

Description

Name

The name to appear as the label for the activity in the process definition.

Description

Short description of the activity.

Shared Configuration

The Notify Configuration shared configuration resource that defines a data schema for this activity. See Notify Configuration for more information.

The Notify Configuration resource is required, but the schema can be empty if you do not want to pass data between processes.

See TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process Design for more information about mapping and transforming input data.

Input Item	Datatype	Description
key	string	The key that coordinates a Notify activity with the corresponding Wait or Receive Notification. For example, in an order handling process, the order ID might be the key that Wait and Notify use to determine which Wait activity corresponds to the Notify activity. The key can be an XPath expression, but it must evaluate to a string. See TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process Design for more information and examples of choosing the key for Wait, Notify, and Receive Notification.
timeout	integer	The timeout (number of milliseconds) to keep the information for this Notify activity. The activity executes immediately and transitions to the next activity, but the Notify information is kept by the engine until a corresponding Receive Notification or Wait occurs. If the corresponding activity does not occur before this timeout is reached, the Notify information is removed.
schema	complex	The schema specified by the Shared Configuration on the Configuration tab. This schema is used to pass data from the process instance into the process instance containing a corresponding Receive Notification or Wait.

The key that coordinates a Notify activity with the corresponding Wait or Receive Notification. For example, in an order handling process, the order ID might be the key that Wait and Notify use to determine which Wait activity corresponds to the Notify activity.

The key can be an XPath expression, but it must evaluate to a string.

See TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process Design for more information and examples of choosing the key for Wait, Notify, and Receive Notification.

timeout

integer

The timeout (number of milliseconds) to keep the information for this Notify activity. The activity executes immediately and transitions to the next activity, but the Notify information is kept by the engine until a corresponding Receive Notification or Wait occurs. If the corresponding activity does not occur before this timeout is reached, the Notify information is removed.

schema

complex

The schema specified by the Shared Configuration on the Configuration tab. This schema is used to pass data from the process instance into the process instance containing a corresponding Receive Notification or Wait.