When a notification mailer sends a notification that contains an embedded Oracle Application Framework region, the mailer makes an HTTP request to the Web tier to fetch the Oracle Application Framework content. The Workflow Mailer URL Access Tester page lets you test whether that content can be generated correctly in the context that the notification mailer uses to access the content. You can test either the notification details for a single notification, or the notification summary of all open notifications for a particular role.

The page provides a test URL that can generate the same content that would be generated for an e-mail notification by the notification mailer. First, establish a browser session with the same context values as those that are set for the notification mailer in the Framework User, Framework Responsibility, and Framework Application ID parameters in the notification mailer configuration wizard. For example, the default values for these parameters are as follows:

• Framework User - SYSADMIN (0)

• Framework Responsibility - System Administrator (20420)

• Framework Application ID - System Administration (1)

See: Message Generation.

Then, in this browser session, navigate to the test URL and view the generated content. If the content does not appear correctly, adjust the code for your Oracle Application Framework region to ensure that it does not depend on the user session context.

   To Test Mailer URL Access:

1. Navigate to the Workflow Mailer URL Access Tester page, using a responsibility and navigation path specified by your system administrator.

2. Select the region type to test, either Notification Details or Notification Summary.

3. For a Notification Details region, specify the following parameters:

   • Notification ID - Specify the unique ID for the notification to test.

   • Content Type - Specify whether to test the notification content in HTML format or as plain text.

   • Language - Select the language in which to display the notification content.

4. For a Notification Summary region, specify the following parameters:

   • Recipient Role - Select the type of role for which you want to test the notification summary. Then select the role you want within that type.

     Note: The role types correspond to the originating system partitions in the Oracle Workflow directory service. See: Setting Up a Directory Service for Oracle Workflow.

   • Content Type - Specify whether to test the notification summary content in HTML format or as plain text.

5. Choose Go. Oracle Workflow displays the test URL to generate the notification content that you specified.

6. Establish a browser session with the same context values as those that are set for the notification mailer in the Framework User, Framework Responsibility, and Framework Application ID parameters in the notification mailer configuration wizard.

7. In this browser session, navigate to the test URL and verify that the generated content appears correctly.

   Note: The test URL provided by the Workflow Mailer URL Access Tester page contains an nlsCalendar parameter that is set according to the preferences of the recipient role for the notification content that you are testing. When you navigate to the test URL, your Oracle E-Business Suite session switches to the calendar preference setting specified in this parameter, if it is different than your current setting, and displays any pages you subsequently visit according to that preference setting. To return to your own calendar preference setting, log out of Oracle E-Business Suite after using the Workflow Mailer URL Access Tester page, and then log in again.