Baseline email notifications

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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  • The baseline system provides several email notifications.

    Some events listed in this table do not appear in a business rule and are fired by other conditions in the platform. Some events are hardcoded and are not user configurable.
    Note:
    The below table list is not an exhaustive list. Products can create their own notifications.
    Table 1. Baseline email notification descriptions
    Email notification Description Triggering event Business Rule Controlling Event
    Appointment Invite

    Type: Meeting Invitation

    Adds a meeting invitation to the recipient’s calendar by sending an iCalendar formatted email

    itil_appointment.inserted Global business rule
    Appointment Update

    Type: Meeting Invitation

    Updates an existing meeting in the recipient’s calendar by sending an iCalendar formatted email

    itil_appointment.updated Global business rule
    Approval Rejected

    Type: EMAIL

    A task-based approval has been rejected – includes the approver’s name.

    approval.rejected approver events
    Approval Rejected by Other

    Type: EMAIL

    A task-based approval has been rejected – includes the approver’s name.

    approval.rejected.by.other approval events
    Approval Request

    Type: EMAIL

    Sends an email for the recipient to reply with an approval decision. In the approval email, the recipient selects a link that builds the appropriate reply email. These emails come only from task-based approvals.

    approval.inserted approver changes
    Catalog Approval Rejected

    Type: EMAIL

    A catalog request has been rejected – includes the approver’s name.

    request.approval.rejected approval events
    Catalog Approval Request

    Type: EMAIL

    A catalog request for which you were an approver has been cancelled.

    request.approval.cancelled approver changes
    Catalog Approval Request

    Type: EMAIL

    A catalog request for which you are an approver has been made.

    request.approval.inserted approval events
    Certificate Expired

    Type: EMAIL

    Notification that the X.509 certificate has expired.

    certificate.expired certificate events
    Certificate Expiring

    Type: EMAIL

    Notification that the X.509 certificate is expiring in N days.

    certificate.expiring certificate events
    Change approved

    Type: EMAIL

    A change request has been approved.

    change.approved Change events and task events
    Change assigned to me

    Type: EMAIL

    A change request has been assigned to you.

    change.assigned Change events
    Change assigned to my group

    Type: EMAIL

    A change request has been assigned to your group.

    change.assigned.to.group Change events
    Change commented (to assignee)

    Type: EMAIL

    A comment has been added to a change request. The person assigned to the change request receives an email notification.

    change.commented Change events
    Change commented (unassigned)

    Type: EMAIL

    A comment has been added to a change request. The assignment group assigned to the change request receives an email notification.

    change.commented Change events
    Change Notification

    Type: EMAIL

    Notification of a change in the fields label in a form.

    label.notify
    Change rejected

    Type: EMAIL

    A change request has been rejected.

    change.rejected Change events and task events
    Change Task worknoted (unassigned)

    Type: EMAIL

    A work note has been added to a change task. The assignment group assigned to the change task receives an email notification.

    change_task.worknoted Change task events
    Change Task worknoted (to assignee)

    Type: EMAIL

    A work note has been added to a change task. The person assigned to the change task receives an email notification.

    change_task.worknoted Change task events
    Change Task assigned to my group

    Type: EMAIL

    A change task has been assigned to your group.

    change_task.assigned.to.group Change task events
    Change Task assigned to me

    Type: EMAIL

    A change task has been assigned to you.

    change_task.assigned Change task events
    Change worknoted (to assignee)

    Type: EMAIL

    A work note has been added to a change request. The person assigned to the change request receives an email notification.

    change.worknoted Change events
    Change worknoted (unassigned)

    Type: EMAIL

    A work note has been added to a change request. The assignment group assigned to the change request receives an email notification.

    change.worknoted Change events
    Email assigned to

    Type: EMAIL

    An incident has been assigned to you (the recipient of the email).

    incident.assigned incident.events
    Email assigned to (sc_task)

    Type: EMAIL

    A task has been assigned to you (the recipient of the email).

    Note:
    This email notification was used for the legacy Delivery Plan system of email notifications. In order to use this email notification with a workflow, the work_start field needs to be set by the workflow using a Set Value activity.
    sc_task.assigned.to.user sc_task_events
    Email assigned To Group

    Type: EMAIL

    An incident has been assigned to an assignment group of which you are a member (the recipient of the email).

    incident.assigned.to.group incident events
    Email assigned to group (sc_task)

    Type: EMAIL

    A Service Catalog task has been assigned to an assignment group of which you are a member (the recipient of the email).

    sc_task.assigned.to.group sc_task_events
    Incident Closed

    Type: EMAIL

    An incident opened by you (the recipient of the email), has been closed.

    incident.updated incident events
    Incident Commented

    Type: EMAIL

    An incident opened by you (the recipient of the email) has had comments added. This notification uses a template for an employee self-service (ESS) user.

    incident.commented incident events
    Incident Commented

    Type: EMAIL

    An incident assigned to you (the recipient of the email) has had comments added. This notification uses a template for an ITIL user.

    incident.commented incident events
    Incident Opened

    Type: EMAIL

    An incident has been opened for you (the recipient of the email) by someone else. This notification uses a template for an employee self-service (ESS) user.

    incident.inserted incident events
    Incident Opened & Unassigned

    Type: EMAIL

    An incident has been opened and is unassigned. This notification uses a template for an ITIL user.

    incident.inserted incident events
    Incident Resolved

    Type: EMAIL

    An incident opened by you has been resolved, and feedback is required to determine if the incident should be closed.

    incident.updated incident events
    Knowledge Closed Created

    Type: EMAIL

    A contributor’s submission to the Knowledge Base was accepted and an article was created.

    kb.submission.closed_created KB event
    Knowledge Closed Duplicate

    Type: EMAIL

    A contributor’s submission to the Knowledge Base was determined to be a duplicate, and no article was created.

    kb.submission.closed_duplicate KB event
    Knowledge Closed Invalid

    Type: EMAIL

    A contributor’s submission to the Knowledge Base was determined to be invalid (unusable).

    kb.submission.closed_invalid KB event
    Notify Change Calendar

    Type: Meeting Invitation

    Notifies the recipients of the schedule for a change request and exports the schedule to the Microsoft Outlook calendar. The email is in the format of iCalendar formatted email.

    change.calendar.notify change events
    Notify Change Calendar Remove

    Type: Meeting Invitation

    Notifies the recipients that a scheduled change has been closed or assigned to someone else and removes the entry from the Microsoft Outlook calendar. The email is in the format of iCalendar formatted email.

    change.calendar.notify.remove change events
    Problem Task assigned to me

    Type: EMAIL

    A problem task has been assigned to you.

    problem_task.assigned Problem task events
    Problem Task assigned to my group

    Type: EMAIL

    A problem task has been assigned to your group.

    problem_task.assigned.to.group Problem task events
    Problem Task worknoted (to assignee)

    Type: EMAIL

    A work note has been added to a problem task. The person assigned to the problem task receives an email notification.

    problem_task.worknoted Problem task events
    Problem Task worknoted (unassigned)

    Type: EMAIL

    A work note has been added to a problem task. The assignment group assigned to the problem task receives an email notification.

    problem_task.worknoted Problem task events
    Problem worknoted (to assignee)

    Type: EMAIL

    A work note has been added to a problem. The person assigned to the problem receives an email notification.

    problem.worknoted Problem events
    Problem worknoted (unassigned)

    Type: EMAIL

    A work note has been added to a problem. The assignment group assigned to the problem receives an email notification.

    problem.worknoted Problem events
    Reminder Insert

    Type: Meeting Invitation

    Creates a calendar reminder regarding an open task. The email is in the format of iCalendar formatted email.

    reminder.notify
    Reminder Insert

    Type: Meeting Invitation

    A task has been closed or deleted. This notification removes the task reminder from Outlook. The email is in the format of iCalendar formatted email.

    reminder.notify.delete
    Reminder Insert Email

    Type: EMAIL

    Sends the recipient a reminder email about a specific task.

    reminder.notify.email
    Request Approved

    Type: EMAIL

    A Service Catalog request, opened by the recipient, has been approved.

    sc_request.approved sc_request events
    Request Assigned

    Type: EMAIL

    A Service Catalog request has been assigned to the recipient.

    sc_request.assigned sc_request events
    Request Completed

    Type: EMAIL

    A Service Catalog request, opened by the recipient, has been completed.

    sc_request.updated sc_request events
    Request Item Assigned

    Type: EMAIL

    An item requested from the Service Catalog has been assigned to you.

    sc_req_item.assigned sc_request events
    Request Item Delivery

    Type: EMAIL

    An item requested from the Service Catalog by the recipient is being delivered.

    sc_req_item.delivery sc_request events
    Request Opened on Behalf

    Type: EMAIL

    A Service Catalog request has been opened on behalf of the recipient.

    sc_request.requested_for sc_request events
    Reset Password

    Type: EMAIL

    The recipient’s password has been reset as requested.

    reset.password
    Scheduled Import Completed

    Type: EMAIL

    A scheduled import set has completed.

    scheduled_import_set.completed
    System Upgraded

    Type: EMAIL

    The recipient’s system has been upgraded.

    system.upgraded
    Task approved

    Type: EMAIL

    An ITIL task has been approved.

    task.approved Change events and task events
    Text Index Completed

    Type: EMAIL

    A scheduled system index has completed.

    text_index.complete
    Unscheduled Change

    Type: EMAIL

    A named configuration item has changed, and no active change request exists.

    cmdb.unscheduled.change
    Note: