This section shows how to create a schedule for the alert. You will use Portal Interface to add the schedule for the rules you set up in “Creating a rule from Portal Interface”. Alerts do not start until you set up and save a schedule, and start the alert.
Every alert needs a destination to deliver the content. The destination can be:
An e-mail address. The user’s registered e-mail address is the default destination. You can specify another e-mail address.
An SMS subscriber. Default SMS carriers include ATT Wireless, Cingular, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
You can add additional SMS carriers to the oem.xml, using the syntax shown in this example:
<DeviceList>
<DeviceClass name="sms" type="email">
<DeviceDef name="ATT Wireless" address_value="mobile.att.net" />
<DeviceDef name="Nextel" address_value="messaging.nextel.com" />
<DeviceDef name="Sprint" address_value="messaging.sprintpcs.com" />
</DeviceClass>
</DeviceList>
Creating an alert schedule
From Portal Interface, click the My Info link. The icon looks like a lowercase “i.”
In MyInfo, select the Alert tab.
Set up the schedule parameters and the alert destination:
Click the box next to Trigger Alert Based on a Schedule to select it.
For Time, use the option controls to specify the start time. For the tutorial, use the current time.
For Recurrence, use the option controls to select the recurrence unit (such as seconds, minutes, hours) and interval. For the tutorial, select Minutes as the unit, and 5 as the interval. This indicates that the alert schedule recurs every five minutes.
Click Disable once to indicate that the e-mail or SMS notification should be sent only once, the first time the conditions are met.
For Range, enter the current date in MM/DD/YYYY format as the start date. For convenience, use the calendar icon to select the month and date.
For the end date, click “No end date.” Alternatively, you could click “End by” and specify an end date.
For Send Alerts to, click Email and enter your e-mail address. Alerts are sent to this e-mail address. You can also click SMS to send the alert to an SMS subscriber, as described in “Creating an SMS alert using Mobile Web Studio”.
Click Done to save the schedule.
Click Start. The Start and Stop buttons act as a toggle, starting and stopping the schedule, and therefore, the alert.
Click Cancel to close the Alert window.
Viewing an alert created
by a Portal Interface user
This section shows how to view the rules and schedule for the alert you created, on the Portal Interface, from the Mobile Web Studio.
Log in to Mobile Web Studio.
Use your portal login name.
Select Agents in the left pane.
Select Ready under Agent Manager. You see the alert you modified in Portal Interface. The alert has the same name as the Portal Interface account name.
Double-click the alert to display the Agent Builder window.
Select the Schedule tab to see the schedule for the newly created alert.
Select the Rule tab to see the rule list for the newly created alert.
You can disable a rule by clicking the box to the left
of the Rule ID.
From the Rule tab, select a rule and click Edit to see the details of the rule. You can modify the rule from Mobile Web Studio, assuming you have correct permissions, even if it was created on Portal Interface. Click OK to close the edit window.
Click Close to close Agent Builder.
Viewing the alert in e-mail
This section shows how to view the generated alert in your e-mail application. Wait to perform this step until after the first interval that you set in “Creating an alert schedule”.
Log in to your e-mail account, using the account that you specified in “Creating an alert schedule”.
View your inbox for the alert notice. Use the Date and Time, or Subject columns to identify the alert.
Double-click the alert to see details.
You may want to stop the alert to keep your e-mail account
from filling up. To do so, use the Stop button.
