Warning Email Notification

Upon successful execution of an Action with warning messages a "Warning" email notification may be sent depending on configuration. See Changing Email notifications to configure whether this email notification is sent. Warning email notifications are configured to be sent by default.

A warning action is one that has executed as per its schedule but has encountered situations it has been configured to warn you about. This does not indicate an error (except under exceptional circumstances) and can generally be ignored. The next time the Action is scheduled to execute it may have further warning messages or not.

You generally do not need to perform any tasks when receiving a warning email notification, they simply indicate that the action was completed successfully albeit with warnings. You should take note of the warning messages and take action only if necessary. The warning message should provide you with enough information to know whether further action is required.

Example Warning Email Notification

The following snippet is an example of a warning email notification. Following the snippet is a description of its elements.

Subject (Flow) WARNING result for 'Export Invoices' Action

An warning has occurred during processing of 'Export Invoices' action. This is NOT an error, however please review the log and confirm the warning is OK.

Flow Version : 229e (101)

Action : Export Invoices
Start Date : 1/04/2010 1:23:39 p.m.
End Date : 1/04/2010 1:23:39 p.m.

Check these things to ensure the warning is not a problem
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1. The customer (Acc# ABC987) on invoice "INV1234" does not have a default payment type assigned. Please update your financial system with the payment type

Complete Log Details
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Info : Execution of 'Export Invoices' starting...
Info : *** Executing Step 1 'Invoice Map' ***
Info : Opening 'Invoices' DB Definition...
Info : Opening 'Invoice File' File Definition...
Info : Linking Data Definitions to Map
Info : Synchronising Data Definition fields with this Map
Info : Processing Map...
User Warning : The customer (Acc# ABC987) on invoice "INV1234" does not have a default payment type assigned. Please update your financial system with the payment type
Info : 1 records processed
Info : Saving 'Invoice File' to file
Info : Saving to 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Flow\Files\Invoices\Invoices.xml' XML File
Info : Validation of XML Document starting
Info : Validating XML Document
Info : XML Document validated successfully
Info : Successfully saved 'Invoice File' to XML file
Info : Finished executing Step 1 'Invoice Map'
Info : Execution completed successfully!

Subject This is the subject line of the email. It clearly defines it as a Flow email and highlights its status as Warning.

Flow Version This is the version of Flow that executed this action. This is useful for other parties if providing support due to the notification.

Action This is the name of the Action as displayed in the Flow configuration.

Start Date This is the date and time that the Action started executing.

End Date This is the date and time that the Action finished executing.

File If showing this indicates the file that was being processed by this action (not including created files that where not transported)

Check these things to ensure the warning is not a problem This provides a list of only the warning messages from the Log. It helps you quickly identify the warnings and deal with them as required. You will notice that all these messages are replicated in the Complete Log Details section of the email.

Complete Log Details The following lines are the complete list of lines from the Log created during the execution of the Action.