If you enable email notification, a user automatically receives email if:
- The
Responsibility field value changes in a change request
- Any field for a requirement or task for which the user is responsible has changed.
- Any field for a topic for which a user is listed as a recipient has changed. (If no recipients are listed for a topic, no
one receives notification)
Because email notification is client-independent, your team members do not have to run a client to receive notification messages.
Default messages sent to recipients of automatic email notification are localized, based on the locale of the server. When
no translation is available for a locale, the message is in English.
Tip: The language used with a specific server configuration can be changed by adding
NotificationLocale to the section of the
starteam-server-configs.xml reserved for the configuration. For example, if you add
NotificationLocale=ja, the messages are sent in Japanese.
Users may confuse email messages sent by individuals (using the
Send to command in the client) with email notification messages, because unless you choose to customize the email message templates,
they are somewhat similar. Therefore, it is a good idea to let users know when you enable automatic email notification and
to explain the differences between the two types of email messages and the two types of notification.
Note: You can dynamically customize the email notifications on a per-server configuration, per-project, or per-component basis.
Edit the templates provided in your repository under the
Notifications folder. You can use fields stored in the
StarTeam database within the custom templates.