Question: Is there a procedure for testing the Notification Service once I have subscribed to an Article or sub-Article?
Answer: Yes. Here is a test procedure that should do the trick. Please see below:
- See How to Subscribe and action accordingly.
- Subscribe to this Article
- Choose Instant Notification or
- Choose Daily Notification
- We do not recommend Weekly Notification for testing the system.
- Email this article to sales@richmondrc.com
- Hint: Roll over the small icons at the top right, they will echo back their purpose. Click on the email icon.
- Leave the Subject defaulted to: Test Procedure
- Uncheck the Include Article Content box.
- Enter into the body of the message something like:
- I want to test the Notification Service. Please amend this article as soon as possible.
- > Send
- When we receive the email message we will make a small edit to this message by adding "YYYYMMDD_HHMM Test Requested" to the bottom of the message. We will then Save & Send it.
- YYYYMMDD is the current Year, Month, Day and HHMM is the current Hour and Minute
- This will trigger the Notification Service to send an email to all subscribers who have subscribed to this article notifiying them of the change and providing a link back to this article.
- If your subscription is working properly, you will receive the email as soon as we Save & Send the change if you have selected Instant Notification or later the following evening if you have elected Daily Notification.
- You may wish to then unsubscribe from this Article so that you won't receive any further notifications to this test procedure document.
- Once you've proven out the system with this test and know that your email is working OK, go ahead and subscribe to other "real" Articles or sub-Articles that you are interested in.
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