Overview

You have the possibility to send various types of notifications:

• Email notifications
• SMS templates to mobile devices

• Forward custom notifications to external outgoing services
• Generate and validate OTP passwords for user identity verification

You can also use the plugin to track what notifications have been sent and to whom.

Let’s go through the steps needed to deploy and set up the plugin:

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Using Notifications plugin

After deploying the notifications plugin in your infrastructure, you can start sending notifications by configuring related actions in your process definitions.

Before adding the corresponding actions in your process definition, you will need to follow a few steps:

• make sure all prerequisites are prepared, for example, the notification templates you want to use
• the database is configured properly
• for each Kafka event type, you will need two Kafka topics:
  • one for the request sent from the FlowX Engine to the Notifications plugin
  • one for the corresponding reply

After all the setup is in place, you can start adding custom actions to the processes.

Let’s go through a few examples. These examples cover both the configuration part, and the integration with the engine for all the use cases.