Notifications plugin can be easily added to your custom FlowX.AI deployment. The plugin will enhance the core platform capabilities with functionality specific to sending various notifications.
You have the possibility to send various types of notifications:
To use the plugin to send notifications, via SMS channel, a third party provider for SMS communication is needed, for example, Twilio.
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:
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:
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The topic names configured for the plugin should match the ones used when configuring the engine and when adding plugin-related process actions:
More details: here
Kafka send
that has an action parameter with key topicName
and the needed topic name as a valuetopicName
and the topic name as the valueAfter 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.