Courage,

In that documentation could you please include the list of events that have
notifications get generated for them?

Thanks,

Ed

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Ed Cable <edca...@mifos.org> wrote:

> https://demo3.openmf.org
>
> mifos/password
>
> Ed
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Courage Angeh <couragean...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Ed Cable <edca...@mifos.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Courage,
>>>
>>> Pardon my ignorance but I still am not able to get notifications
>>> working.
>>>
>>> I see and understand the gist of the documentation page that Adhyan
>>> provided in that if you want to receive a notification that a savings
>>> account has been *created* in order to take the action of* approving*
>>> it, your role needs the permission to *activate *or *approve* that
>>> saving account.
>>>
>>
>> If you receive a notification that a savings account has been created
>> then you account already has permissions to activate or approve a saving
>> account
>>
>>
>>> I did that configuration on the demo3 server but still no notification
>>> is getting generated.
>>>
>>
>> Can you send me a link to the hosted demo3 server so I can try it out?
>>
>>>
>>> I also think we need to improve upon the documentation:
>>>
>>> 1) We need to show which actions have notifications already configured.
>>> For each action, we should say: 1) What action generates notification 2)
>>> what action can be taken from notification (if any) and 3) what permission
>>> needs to be enabled for that user to view notification (if that's how a
>>> notification is configure)
>>>
>>
>>> 2) Is it really the case that the only configuration around the
>>> notifications framework is by enabling permissions? We have no UI
>>> whatsoever? If so, that should be an enhancement that we have an intern or
>>> volunteer focus on so it's more explicit about configuring notifications
>>> from the UI
>>>
>>
>> The is no special UI configuration  needed for a user to configure
>> notification.  What actually happens is; When a user selects a role, He/She
>> is subcribed to the listen to notifications for the permissions in that
>> role. For example, if a user has a role called Admin and Admin has
>> permissions New Savings Account Approved, then when ever a new Savings
>> account is created a notification will be sent to that user because
>> Creating a new saving emitts events to notify any user have permissions to
>> approve a new savings account
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 3) Related to that last point, where does all the work that you did
>>> around subscriber groups come into play? I thought that you had made
>>> enhancements to allow notifications to be generated to entire sets of
>>> users. Is that all just on the back-end whereby a subscriber group to
>>> receive notifications gets created whenever a new role is created? If so,
>>> could you create/update documentation to reflect the same.
>>>
>>
>> Most of the work I did was backend intensive. Notifications are sent only
>> to the users with permissions to act on that notification.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> What I'd like to see is a piece of documentation that explains to users
>>> to who, for what actions, and how notifications get generated and then
>>> explains how to configure these and/or disable them. We also need to make
>>> it clear how users can extend by enabling notifications for other
>>> permissions.
>>>
>>> We should also link to documentation on self-service app side which
>>> explains how the mobile banking app hooks into these notifications.
>>>
>>> Right now if I was a user I wouldn't even know notifications were
>>> available and how to take advantage of this nice feature.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>
>> Thanks alot for your feedback Ed. I will create a detailed documentation
>> explain the notification framework and how to configure it.
>>
>> Courage.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:47 AM, Courage Angeh <couragean...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ed,
>>>>
>>>> Most of the work I did was enhancements, and I added few other
>>>> notification events. So Adhyan's documentation is still valid, I have made
>>>> a few updates and the documentation should be okay now.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Courage
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:25 PM, Ed Cable <edca...@mifos.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Courage,
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you point me to the documentation for end users/sys admins to
>>>>> configure the notifications framework?
>>>>>
>>>>> I know that Adhyan had created this documentation at
>>>>> https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/docs/pages/153387
>>>>> 033/Configure+Notifications but I think all the work you've done
>>>>> around subscriber groups recently supersedes that.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know you created the doc on configuration of active MQ at
>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Sett
>>>>> ing+up+ActiveMQ+for+Fineract+1.0 but i've not been able to find
>>>>> anything else.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the release now out, I want to make sure users know to properly
>>>>> configure the notifications - both enabling it, configuring subscriber
>>>>> groups, configuring for which events notifications occur, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Ed Cable*
>>>>> President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
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