User notification from server methods

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.

1. Send an email to the user
   • Sample code for this can be found in the Programmer's Guide
2. 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"); )
3. 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