Notification Composer

January 24, 2025
Larry Zagata
Blog, PeopleSoft

In FSCM PUM Image 49, Enterprise Components delivers the Notification Composer component, which provides a centralized framework to create and manage all your notifications within the PeopleSoft applications.

Notification Composer streamlines multiple notification methods and frameworks into a single approach. Notification Composer requires PeopleTools 8.59.19 or higher and sends email, text, and in-app notifications through the PeopleTools Push Notification framework.

The framework allows you to configure how messages are sent and whether they are mandatory. It also allows individual users to choose whether or not to receive a message and how they want to receive it.

From PeopleBooks:

Notification Composer is fully configurable and provides the ability to enable, disable, or override individual notifications at any time. In addition, Notification Composer provides built-in flexibility for configuring notifications:

Group related notifications: You can organize and group related notifications using Business Process classification.
PeopleTools integration: You can associate PeopleTools notification names with Notification Composer notifications to control delivery channel preferences and user personalization options.
Configurable message source: You can specify whether you want an email, text, or in-app notification to use custom text, email templates, or message catalog.
User lists: You can specify user lists to define notification recipients for your notifications. User lists can be defined using roles, role queries, SQL definition, and application classes.
Notification handler: You can define a custom handler for sending notifications. A notification handler provides a framework for managing and sending various types of notifications, such as email notifications, text notifications, and so forth.
Event mapping: You can create a custom notification trigger using Event Mapping functionality. Event Mapping functionality allows you to define your own business logic to be executed when specific events occur within PeopleSoft applications. These events can be triggered by user actions or other predefined conditions.
Bind variables: You can associate bind variables with email, text, or in-app notifications. A bind variable is a placeholder used to represent a value in a SQL statement. Bind variables enable you to insert variable text into the notification messages. For example, you can add a bind variable for employee name within the message text. When the notification is sent to a group of employees, each employee has their own name appear in the message text.

Notification Composer is a great tool to streamline the notification process. There is a lot of useful information available to help you on your way to leveraging Notification Composer.