Available in Sage 50 Quantum Accounting.

Notifications Fields

The following field information is intended to assist those who design reports for Sage 50 using Crystal Reports.

Filename: NOTIFICA.DAT

NOTIFICA.DAT is the notifications file. Most of the information below is entered in Sage 50's Notification Rules Settings window or displayed in Sage 50's My Notifications List. Notification Rules Settings can be accessed from Maintain>Workflow>Notification Rules. Go to Lists>Workflow Notifications>My Notifications to access the notifications sent to you.

Indexes and Their Uses

This file has the following keys:

0 = By Record Number

1 = By GUID

2 = By GuidUserKey, then AlertType

3 = By GuidUserKey, then Status

4 = By Post Order

Fields

The following table shows the fields available in the NOTIFICA.DAT file and includes the type and size in number of bytes of each field.

Field Name

Type

Size

Comment

RecordNumber

Integer

This (internal) notifications field is used for linking purposes to other Sage 50 data tables. For more information, see Indexes and Their Uses above.

This field is unique in the table and never changes.

GUID

UBinary

GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) used for linking Notification Rules table.

Status

Integer

Indicates whether the notification is new.

0 = old (read)

1 = new (unread)

AlertType

Integer

Transaction type that triggered notification

InsertDateTime

Date

Time stamp for the notification

ModifiedBy

ZString

16

User who made the change to the transaction that caused the notification to be triggered

ModifyDateTime

Date

The date and time the change was made that triggered the notification.

PostOrder

Integer

Foreign key into the JRNLHDR table. Links to the journal entry recording the posting of the transaction that triggered the notification.

MessageKey

Integer

Internal key used for linking to the Message for the notification

AdditionalMsgKey

Integer

Internal key used for linking to the Additional Message for the notification

RuleDescription

ZString

100

Description for the rule that triggered the notification