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alias: user-guide-business-workflow-task-create-notification
render_macros: false
description: "This task creates notifications triggered by resource state changes, defining conditions and actions"
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# Create Notification

The task allows the user to Create a Notification.

![Screenshot showing a business workflow task for creating a notification.](images/business_workflow_task_create_notification.png)

??? example "Example"

    Trigger: 

    - Task Name: `Resource.ChangeState.Post`
    - Meaning: After a Resource changes state.
 
    Condition: 

    - Input Expression: `{{$ResourceChangeStatePost_1.Resource.Type=="Critical" && $ResourceChangeStatePost_1.NewState=="Unscheduled Down"}}`
    - Meaning: If the Resource that changed state was of Type `"Critical"` and it transitioned to the `"Unscheduled Down"` state.

    Action:

    - Settings:
  
        - Name: [Empty]
        - Type: General
        - Title: Resource is Down
        - Details: A Critical Resource is down!
        - Severity: Warning
        - Assignment: Everyone
        - Applicable Filter: Resource
        - Mode: Manual Single User
  
    - Input (for resource): Packer-01 
    - Meaning: A notification with the configured settings will appear in the Resource Packer-01 Resource View, whenever a Resource of type Critical transitions to Unscheduled Down state. 

## Behavior

The user will define the same values available when creating a notification.

## Settings

| Name                            | Data Type           | Description                                                                               |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Name`                          | `String`            | The Notification name                                                                     |
| `Description`                   | `String`            | The Notification description                                                              |
| `Type`                          | `LookupTableValue`  | The Notification type. The list is taken from the lookup table NotificationType           |
| `Title`                         | `String`            | The Notification title                                                                    |
| `Details`                       | `HTML`              | The Notification details                                                                  |
| `Severity`                      | `LookupTableValue`  | The Notification severity. The list is taken from the lookup table NotificationSeverity   |
| `Assignment`                    | `Enum`              | The Notification assignment                                                               |
| `Employee`                      | `Employee`          | The Notification employee if the Assignment is set to Employee                            |
| `Role`                          | `Role`              | The Notification role if the Assignment is set to Role                                    |
| `SendEmailToAssignedParty`      | `Boolean`           | The Notification setting for the assigned party                                           |
| `SendEmailToDistributionList`   | `String`            | The Notification email distribution list                                                  |
| `ApplicableFilter`              | `Enum`              | The Notification visibility filter to be applied                                          |
| `Mode`                          | `Enum`              | The Notification clearance mode                                                           |
| `ValidTo`                       | `DateTime`          | The Notification clearance validity period                                                |

## Inputs

| Name            | Data Type  | Description            |Expression|
| --------------- | ---------- | ---------------------- |---|
| `Facility`      | `Facility` | The Facility context   |- `<facility_name>`|
| `Area`          | `Area`     | The Area context       |- `<area_name>`|
| `Resource`      | `Resource` | The Resource context   |- `<resource_name>`|
| `Step`          | `Step`     | The Step context       |- `<step_name>`|
| `Material`      | `Material` | The Material context   |- `<material_name>`|

## Remarks

Nothing to add.