RE: User notification from server methods

Meismart — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:51:30 GMT

You could try this.getInnovator().newResult();

It won't Alert the user but rather return a status to the caller. you can see this by running an action with the target set to Window.

RE: User notification from server methods

jukkatlehtinen — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:16:25 GMT

Hi, not 100% what I was looking for - but thanks, this made it clear. And I think I will go for a email option.

//Jukka.

RE: User notification from server methods

Christopher Gillis — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:24:21 GMT

Hi Jukka,

This is generally not possible as server methods are intended to run separate from the client. There are a couple built-in alternatives to get a notification to the user however.

Send an email to the user
- Sample code for this can be found in the Programmer's Guide
Call your server method from a client method
- This is a good choice if your server method is running from an Action instead of a Server Event
- You can run your server method by using aras.applyMethod(YOUR_METHOD_NAME, YOUR_METHOD_BODY);
- Notifications to the user can be thrown using standard browser functions ( alert("This is what happened"); ) or Aras functions ( aras.AlertSuccess("This is what happened"); )
Create a new Notification Message item
- Notification Messages are typically used to alert users of things like server maintenance, but you may be able to utilize them for your use case as well
- You can find these items under TOC > Administration > Notification > Notification Message
- Aras will periodically poll for new notification messages to display to the user
- This interval for this polling can be configured by changing the value of the MessageCheckInterval variable item

Chris

Christopher Gillis

Aras Labs Software Engineer