Hi there,
Is there a place in select where you can program the system to pop up an alert based on specific criteria? I am asking this because we have an ongoing list of contact persons/buyers/sellers/properties that are classified as problematic/non approved. We would like to have a way to notify the user when the file contains one of the problematic issues so that the user knows to alert the office and put the order on hold.
Thanks
Miri Yosef
Alert
Moderator: Phil Barton
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Mark McKenna
Re: Alert
We currently do not offer a supported means from within the application itself by which to perform custom validations. It can be done, but the integration code is moderately complex and, as an unsupported interface, would be subject to future internal deprecation (breaking changes). Providing a supported interface to accomplish what you are looking to do is something that is being considered for a future version.
If you still wish to pursue this, we would want to take that discussion offline since it is unsupported.
Something similar could perhaps be accomplished using our event notification service. Each time an order is saved our mid-tier server fires an event upon its subscribers (if any) that contains basic metadata about the just-saved order - at least enough to access the order via the API. A web service could be fashioned and integrated as an event subscriber that would process each saved order by looking at the appropriate data points in the underlying order (through the API) and validating the data against your blacklist. If any red flags appear, that new web service could then take the appropriate action (deliver an email to the group manager, log it, etc.). I know that's not exactly the "pop up" behavior you were describing, but it does present a supported alternative that might accomplish the same task.
If you still wish to pursue this, we would want to take that discussion offline since it is unsupported.
Something similar could perhaps be accomplished using our event notification service. Each time an order is saved our mid-tier server fires an event upon its subscribers (if any) that contains basic metadata about the just-saved order - at least enough to access the order via the API. A web service could be fashioned and integrated as an event subscriber that would process each saved order by looking at the appropriate data points in the underlying order (through the API) and validating the data against your blacklist. If any red flags appear, that new web service could then take the appropriate action (deliver an email to the group manager, log it, etc.). I know that's not exactly the "pop up" behavior you were describing, but it does present a supported alternative that might accomplish the same task.