About Conditional Alerts

Conditional Alert records store information about emails that you want to send to various users. Before you can create a Conditional Alert that specifies when to send an email message and to whom, you must create and save a query that returns the data you want to send in the email message.

For example, suppose there are two inspectors in your company to whom Inspection Task records are assigned. You might want to create a query that returns a list of those Inspection Task records and the user to whom each is assigned. Then, you could create a Conditional Alert record that determines when an email message will be sent to those inspectors and the type of data that the email message will contain.

After you create a Conditional Alert, you must compile and execute the strategy rule MI_ProcessCondtionalAlerts, which is provided as part of the baseline GE Digital APM content. This strategy rule searches the database for all Conditional Alert records. If it finds any records, it then uses the information in those records (i.e., interval at which to send the email message, date the email message was last sent, and so on) to determine if an email message should be sent at that time.

The creation of Conditional Alert records is part of the Inspection Management workflow. Note that, based upon your needs, you can create Conditional Alert at any time.