How to set-up RQM Review/Approval Cycles and expect Email Notifications for RQM 6.0.3
Hi I'm using RQM version 6.0.3. My question is exactly like that listed in this post dated back in April 2013.
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/109256/how-to-set-up-rqm-reviewapproval-cycles-and-expect-email-notifications <o:p> </o:p>
My goal is to enable Reviewers and Approvers to be notified by email of their required participation in reviewing/approving a test plan.
My current workflow is as follows,
- Create a test plan using the default test plan template.
- Go to the "Formal Review" panel for the test plan and add some Approvers/Reviewers.
(At this point, I click save, and from my understanding of documentation I have seen, RQM should now generate a "Task-Review" work item. The approvers/reviewers defined previously should now receive an email notification, telling them that a work item has been created, and they are required to take some action. However, this does not happen, and no work item is automatically created.)
- In the "Formal Review" Panel, there is a label that says "Quality Task - Create", clicking this opens a dialog
that allows you to create a work item.
- I select, "Task-Review," as the type and hit OK.
- A work item is now created, and again, I am given the opportunity to add reviewers/approvers.
- I do this, as before, and hit save.
- Again, I would expect some email notifications at this point, but none are to be seen.
Please could someone point out a flaw in my workflow, and tell me whether my assumptions are correct.
I feel I've hit a brick wall here, and with only a small, simple, task.
Thanks in advance.
Daniel.
One answer
I can confirm that adding an approver does trigger the notification email. But in my environment, JTS reports CRJAZ1999E (invalid email address) and refuses to send the emails, which is similar to this issue.
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/113513/how-does-server-determine-email-address-is-invalid
Check the jts.log file and see if you have the same issue.
On the other hand, if I send test emails in JTS, it happily sends out the emails. I haven't figured out what's going on yet.
Comments
Don Yang
May 12 '17, 1:56 a.m.I don't find any defects in v6.0.3 on email notification of artifact approval not working. A basic question is that you did configure email notification server and verify it works for RTC work item?
Patricio Sanhueza
May 12 '17, 10:35 a.m.I can confirm that I finally received emails, although it took longer than I would have expected to begin with (started review in the morning... got first email notifications in afternoon). This was the first time trying out the Formal Review feature in RQM so perhaps there was some other underlying issues causing the slow down in the email notification? Not sure but now the email notification seem to be working as expected (much like RTC notifications). If I spot any other anomalies I'll be sure to post on this thread but for the time being I see that the issue can be closed at least for me.