Data Source

When you configure a conditional notification—such as a New Data Notification or a Scheduled Notification—you must specify the data source (table) to monitor.

For example, to monitor events such as download attempts, you would select the ESD_DOWNLOADS table. Each notification can reference only one data source.

The selected data source determines which fields and tokens are available in later configuration steps.

Data Source for New Data Notifications

For notifications of type New Data Notification, the selected data source controls the fields and tokens available during notification configuration, as described below.

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Triggers: On the Configure Trigger Conditions page, only fields from the selected table are available. As a result, trigger conditions can be defined only for changes to fields in that data source.

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Destination: The selected data source also affects which fields and tokens are available when configuring notification destinations.

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Email: The data source determines the tokens that can be inserted into the email subject and body. Tokens from the selected data source can be used to include detailed information about the events that triggered the notification.

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Webhook: In the Configure Webhook Notification pane, the Available Variables section lists the tokens that can be sent to the webhook. In addition to notification-level tokens, the available data tokens depend on the selected data source.

Data Source for Scheduled Notifications

For Scheduled Notifications, users select a data source and then define the metrics and aggregation logic—such as count, sum, or average—using fields from that source.

The selected data source determines which fields are available for metric calculation and aggregation.