ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE R12

Setup Workflow
Notification Mailer
Step by Step Guide
Malik Asif Joyia

2011

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Step by Step Guide to Configure Workflow Notification Mailer

Workflow notification is very important functionality in Oracle E-Business Suite. It helps users to carry
out approvals over email.

For Example:

PO Approvals

PR Approvals

Leave Approval

Journal Batch Approval

Following are the Steps to configure user accounts and workflow notification mailer.

1. Change User Preferences to Enable Notifications

Ask your users to login to ERP System and go to Preferences. In the end of the page there is setting for
Notifications. By default Notifications are disabled.

You need to set it to HTML Email with Attachment

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2. Configure Workflow Mailer

Go to System Administrator Responsibility. And Click on Workflow Manager

Go to Configuration Section. Click on Service Components.

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Select Notification Mailer. And Click Edit button to edit its settings.

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In the above Screenshot you need to fill out the Main Requirements to run a Notification Mailer.

Your SMTP Sever Address or IP.

As you are going to carry out approvals over email so you need to enable the Inbound Processing

Specify your Inbound Mail Server Address or IP.

Provide your User Name and Password.

Mention the Reply to Address. This Email Address should belong to same email account which you have
provided above.

Click on Advance Button to configure the Mailer Advanced Settings.

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Click Next

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Note : Please dont make any change in above settings until you are well aware of the implications.

Click Next

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Here settings for Inbound Protocol are available For Example : you want to configure POP3 or IMAP.

Allow Forwarded Response means that if User1 receive approval notification & he forward that email to
user2, User2 perform Approve or Reject action on that notification. Do you want user to allow this ?

To have a good security you should uncheck it.

Click Next

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Preferred is to have From address & Reply to address as same to avoid any confusions and further
problems.

Click Next

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Click Next

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Step 6 Provides advance setting to process incoming notification response

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Here you have to test the Workflow Mailer Settings.

Select a User ID and Send a Test Notification.

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Once that User Receive Notification , click the Acknowledge button in the Notification Email.

Click Next to Finish.

Congratulations your Workflow Mailer is now Ready for Use.

Important Points to consider:

1. User Account should have user email Address

2. HRMS should also have user email address
3. Your smtp server should accept email from your ERP IP Address
4. In User Login Preferences you should have enabled the Notifications

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