IBM WebSphere Everyplace Access V5 Handbook for Developers and Administrators Volume IV: Advanced Topics

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Figure 1-15 Modifying a rule

1.4.4 My Subscriptions

In the My Subscriptions portlet, you can define what kind of information you want

to receive based on subscriptions. The out-of-the-box content adapters are:

򐂰 Lotus Notes e-mail subscriptions

򐂰 Weather subscriptions

򐂰 Stock subscriptions

򐂰 News subscriptions

򐂰 Microsoft Exchange 2000 subscriptions

򐂰 Microsoft Exchange 5.5 subscriptions

Lotus Notes e-mail subscriptions

Intelligent Notification Services provides notifications when you receive an e-mail

on your mail account.

Note: This service is different from the one that is provided in Intelligent

Notification Services Everyplace Synchronization Server. In Everyplace

Synchronization Server, the e-mail is replicated from a mailbox to a PDA.

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For this subscription, a user (INSAdmin) must have privilege to the account in the

Domino server. Therefore, each user who wants to have notifications from the

Domino server must have this user activated in the Access Control List.

To begin, select Edit account settings, as shown in Figure 1-16.

Figure 1-16 Edit account settings

To set up of this subscription:

1. Define the name and the password of the user in Domino, and click OK, as

shown in Figure 1-17.

Figure 1-17 Defining the name and password of the user in Domino

2. Create the subscription by clicking New, as shown in Figure 1-18.

Figure 1-18 Creating a Lotus e-mail subscription

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When you create the subscription, you can include the following information

about the subscription:

򐂰 From

If you want notification when the e-mail arrives based on who sends the

e-mail, put the name of the sender in this field.

򐂰 Subject includes

If you want notification when the subject includes special strings, enter those

strings here. Otherwise, it takes all the possible subjects.

򐂰 Priority

Based on the priority of the message, you can filter what you want to receive

as a notification. Possible options are urgent, normal, FYI. If you do not want

to filter notifications based on the priority, select Any Priority in this field.

򐂰 Notification

Two options are available for this field: Once or Always. To receive just one

notification the first time that a match occurs, select Once. To receive

notification every time a match occurs, select Always.

򐂰 Delivery channels options

To receive notification just once by trying all different channels that are

activated in the list, choose Each selected delivery channel in order, until

delivery is successful.

If you want to deliver to all the channels that are selected in the list, choose

All of the selected delivery channels.

Figure 1-19 on page 33 shows an example of this subscription information.

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Figure 1-19 Defining information about a Lotus e-mail subscription

Weather subscription

Weather subscription is provided by WebSphere Everyplace Access as an

example of what Intelligent Notification Services can do for you. In this sample

scenario, the Intelligent Notification Weather subscription portlet is provided and

obtain all the preferences of different users, validates data, and publishes that

data to the Subscription Manager through the Preferences Manager.

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This portlet requires the following data:

򐂰 City

򐂰 State

򐂰 Weather report, current conditions or forecast

򐂰 Notification, Once or Always

򐂰 Delivery channels, all the delivery channels or just the first one available

򐂰 Suitable delivery channels

Figure 1-20 shows an example of this information for the Intelligent Notification

Weather subscription.

Figure 1-20 Intelligent Notification Weather portlet