Using a channel
A channel is a service to which users and security roles subscribe. Channels use publish-subscribe technology to deliver job completion notices and documents from a central server across the internet to users. Using Channels, an Information Console user can open a document or read information about the job that generated it in a channel to which he subscribes.
Every Information Console user is subscribed to a personal channel. A user cannot unsubscribe from a personal channel. An administrator sets options that control whether the server sends job completion notices to a user’s personal channel by default, and if so, under what conditions notices are deleted. A user can also set these options, using Options—Notification.
A user scheduling a job can choose whether or not to send a job completion notice for the job. If the user decides to send a notice, it appears in the user’s personal channel and any other channels the user specifies when setting up the job.
A user with access and privileges can subscribe to multiple channels. Choose Channels to view all currently subscribed channels as shown in
Figure 2‑33, or to subscribe to a new channel.
Figure 2‑33 Viewing subscribed channels
Filtering a channel limits the notices that a user sees in a channel. To limit the notices that you see in a channel, use the same procedure that you use to filter file names in a folder. For example, in your personal channel, choose Filter On. Then, type characters in Filter. Use the asterisk (*) special character to search for a partial string.
A volume administrator may create multiple channels to group job notifications together. For example, in a typical channel created for sales managers, all sales managers in the US can subscribe to the US Sales channel in which links to US sales reports appear.
