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Note: If your e-mail reader cannot interpret HTML formatting in a message body, you should set your notification preference to plain text mail with HTML Attachments (MAILATTH).

The notification mailer uses the HTML Body defined for the message in the Message Body property page to generate the HTML e-mail message. If no HTML Body is defined, it uses the Text Body to generate the HTML message. The notification mailer token replaces all message attributes referenced in the message body with HTML-formatted values. For example:

• PL/SQL and PL/SQL CLOB document attributes are token replaced with HTML text or plain text between <pre>...</pre> HTML tags.

• URL attributes are token replaced with HTML links, unless the URL points to an image file. When you select such a link, your e-mail reader takes you to the target URL page.

• URL attributes that point to an image file are token replaced with <IMG>...</IMG> HTML tags to display the image inline within the message body. Notification mailers treat URL attributes as images if the URL points to a file with an extension of gif, jpg, png, tif, bmp, or jpeg.

• In Oracle Applications, a document attribute that represents an Oracle Applications Framework region is token replaced with the HTML version of the region. A notification with an embedded Oracle Applications Framework region can contain multiple regions. However, it cannot contain any tokens for content other than regions.

Note: For notifications that do not include embedded Oracle Applications Framework regions, message attributes that have Attach Content checked in their Attributes property page, are usually appended as attachments to their parent message. For example:

• If the message attribute is a URL attribute, an attachment called Notification References is appended to the message. This attachment includes a link to each URL attribute for the message that has Attach Content checked. You can navigate to a URL by choosing its link. Note that the Notification References attachment does not display images inline. If Attach Content is checked, a URL attribute always appears as a link in the Notification References attachment, even if the URL points to an image file. Notification mailers also do not have any special handling of video or audio URL content.

• If the message attribute is a PL/SQL, PL/SQL CLOB, or PL/SQL BLOB document attribute, the fully generated PL/SQL document is fetched and attached to the message.

However, if a notification includes an embedded Oracle Applications Framework region, then Oracle Workflow includes the Related Applications region in the e-mail message with links to the attached URLs or PL/SQL documents, instead of appending them as separate attachments.

Note that although such message-specific attachments may be included, no standard attachments are included with the notification message if your notification preference is MAILHTM2.

You can respond to your HTML-formatted notification by clicking on a link that represents the response in the HTML message body. The response link generates a plain text e-mail response that includes a response template modified with the predefined response value that you select. See: To Respond to an HTML E-mail Notification, Oracle Workflow User's Guide.

Note: You can use the Inline Attachment configuration parameter to set the Content-Disposition MIME header to either inline or attachment for all attachments to notification messages, including Notification References containing attached URLs and attached PL/SQL, PL/SQL CLOB, or PL/SQL BLOB documents. Note, however, that some e-mail clients may not support the Content-Disposition header, or may support it in varying ways. Consequently, the Inline Attachment setting may not always have the desired effect, depending on the e-mail clients with which users read their e-mail messages.

Note: The file name of the Notification References attachment is determined by the text value for the WF_URLLIST_ATTACHMENT resource token, or by the token name if no text value is defined. The default file name is "Notification References.html". If you want to specify different file names for this attachment, you must first create a .msg source file specifying the new file names as the text values for the WF_URLLIST_ATTACHMENT resource token. Then use the Workflow Resource Generator program to upload the new seed data from the source file to the database table WF_RESOURCES. See: To Run the Workflow Resource Generator, Oracle Workflow API Reference and Setting the WF_RESOURCES Environment Variable.

See: Notification Preferences