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18 Managing Subscriptions and Notifications 18-1 18 Managing Subscriptions and Notifications In WebCenter Spaces, subscriptions and notifications provide users with a means of subscribing to the types of services and application objects in which they have a particular interest. Consequently, users receive timely notice of the changes that affect their subscribed services and objects from their selected messaging channels. Notifications administration provides a means of creating and, potentially, enforcing application-wide defaults for application-level subscriptions and specifying a connection type that identifies the server that will handle notification delivery. This chapter steps through the process of performing these administrative tasks and provides information about how to set and get Notifications messaging configuration details using WLST commands. Always use the Fusion Middleware Control or WLST command-line tool to review and configure back-end services for WebCenter applications. Any changes you make to WebCenter applications, post deployment, are stored in MDS metadata store as customizations. See Section 1.3.5, WebCenter Configuration Considerations. This chapter includes the following sections: ■ Section 18.1, Setting Up Default Subscription Preferences ■ Section 18.2, Setting Up a Notifications Connection Type ■ Section 18.3, Creating and Applying Custom Notification Templates ■ Section 18.4, Testing the Notifications Connection ■ Section 18.5, Troubleshooting Issues with Notifications See Also: For more information, see the section, What You Should Know About Subscriptions and Notifications, in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle WebCenter. Note: Most changes you make to WebCenter services configuration, through Fusion Middleware Control or using WLST, are not dynamic. For your changes to take effect, you must restart the managed server on which the WebCenter application is deployed. See Section 8.2, Starting and Stopping Managed Servers for WebCenter Application Deployments. 18-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter

18.1 Setting Up Default Subscription Preferences

WebCenter Spaces users set their personal Subscriptions preferences through the WebCenter Spaces Preferences dialog. Before this happens, the WebCenter administrator can set default values that determine the application-level subscription options that are available to all users and whether those defaults can be changed. This section provides an overview of Subscription defaults and steps you through the process of setting default values. This section includes the following subsections: ■ Section 18.1.1, What You Should Know About Subscription Defaults ■ Section 18.1.2, Setting Subscription Defaults ■ Section 18.1.3, Setting Subscriptions Preferences in WebCenter Spaces

18.1.1 What You Should Know About Subscription Defaults

Administrator-level Subscription preferences are set in a custom XML file that you create and then use to supersede the file that is provided for this purpose out of the box notification-service-settings.xml. The settings in the custom XML file are analogous to the application-level subscriptions settings available to users through Subscription Preferences in the WebCenter Spaces application for more information, see the section, Setting Application-Level Subscriptions, in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle WebCenter. Each setting provides three attributes: ■ id—for specifying the service ID: – oracle.webcenter.peopleconnections.connections, the Connections feature of the People Connections service – oracle.webcenter.peopleconnections.wall, the Message Board feature of the People Connections service – oracle.webcenter.peopleconnections.kudos, the Feedback feature of the People Connections service – oracle.connections. community, Space membership management ■ subscription-enabled—For specifying the default value for the preference option: true or false ■ end-user-configurable—For enabling users to change the established default or preventing users from doing so: true or false These attributes work together to determine the initial state of the General Subscriptions tab on the Subscriptions panel in the WebCenter Spaces Preferences dialog Figure 18–1 . Tip: Rather than enabling or disabling the entire subscription capability, the subscription-enabled attribute merely sets the initial state of the preference option. For example, if subscription-enabled=true, then the associated subscription option is checked by default in the WebCenter Spaces Preferences dialog. If subscription-enabled=false, then the associated subscription option is not checked by default in the dialog.