Overview
iShare My Alerts enables a member of the public to sign up to a Local Authority alert service that automatically sends an email when any council related service event happens within a predefined distance from their house. The module plugs into My House / My Nearest and picks up any new additions to data for a particular location.
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Users subscribe to alerts for Layer Groups rather than individual Layers. |
What Triggers an Alert
The following events will trigger an Alert in My Alerts.
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Layer Group configuration overrides Layer configuration i.e. if you add a Layer into a Layer Group, but don't enable My Alerts on that Layer, then the initial addition of the Layer will trigger an alert. |
Pre-Requisites
My Alerts will require the following components to be configured before running:
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The relationship of all the modules mentioned above and detailed configuration options needed are shown in the following diagram:
Logging
To set up logging for My Alerts go to the My Alerts installation folder (e.g. D:\Astun\iShare\5.4\MyAlerts). In both sub-folders create a logs folder if not present already. Copy / paste and rename the log4net.config.example to log4net.config in both the the Webservice and Console folders. Logging will now be generated on the next run.
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