Alert templates are used to configure purchase order alerts that are triggered when a debtor purchase order reaches a specific percentage of budget usage or is due to expire.
An alert template has the following attributes:
a template name that determines the name of the alert template as it will appear in a dropdown list of available purchase order alert templates
an alert type that determines if the template applies to purchase order expiry or balance alert
a delivery method that determines how the alert is delivered (email, SMS, email and SMS)
an expiry offset that determines the number of weeks prior to the expiry of a purchase order than an alert is to be sent (for expiry alert templates only)
a resend frequency that determines how often the alert is to be resent once the condition for sending the alert is triggered (never, daily, weekly, fortnightly)
the alert staff who are to receive the alert (job creator, job owner, client owner, purchase order contact)
a subject line that determines the text that is to appear in the subject line if the alert is sent via email
the message text that is to appear in the body of the alert - this can include merge tags (database fields) so that variable information such as the purchase order number and debtor name can be included in the message body of the alert.
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