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title: "Configuring Notifications"
slug: "configuring-notifications"
updated: 2021-02-17T17:00:12Z
published: 2021-02-17T17:00:12Z
canonical: "kb.expedient.com/configuring-notifications"
stale: true
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.expedient.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Configuring Notifications

1. On the top bar, select Notifications

![](https://cdn.document360.io/69e9f9c7-5da8-45e7-a671-4b8287f36122/Images/Documentation/image-1613512751106.png)

2. Click **New Notification**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/69e9f9c7-5da8-45e7-a671-4b8287f36122/Images/Documentation/image-1613512751156.png)

3. Name the notification, then define conditions that will trigger a notification

- Options are Events, Status Updates, Group Membership, and Role Membership
- Click the plus **+** button to add more conditions for your new notification

4. Set the notification **Action** for the conditions, which will enable you to select an email recipient

5. Select *Custom* from the recipient drop-down to display a free-form **More Recipients** field, where you can enter any email addresses, regardless of whether they are defined as OneLogin users. You can also enter a placeholder for a [custom user field](https://onelogin.service-now.com/kb_view_customer.do?sysparm_article=KB0010629) (let's say a secondary email address field) in the format `{{user.custom_attribute_`*shortname*`}}` where `shortname` is the short name of the custom user field.

6. Provide the subject line and body text.

You can use any of the following placeholders to add variables with the {{double-bracket format}}:

**Values**

```
{{name}} - User's full name
```

```
{{firstname}} - User's first name
```

```
{{firstinitial}} - User's first initial of their first name
```

```
{{lastname}} - User's last name
```

```
{{lastinitial}} - User's first initial of their last name
```

```
{{email}} - User's email address
```

```
{{email_name_part}} - User's email address before the @
```

```
{{email_domain_part}} - User's email address after the @
```

```
{{username}} - User's username
```

```
{{department}} - User's department
```

```
{{title}} - User's title
```

```
{{openid_name}} - User's OpenID name
```

```
{{samaccountname}} - User's sAMAccount name (from Active Directory)
```

```
{{member_of}} - User's member of (from Active Directory)
```

```
{{external_id}} - User's external id (from Active Directory)
```

```
{{userprincipalname}} - User's Userprincipalname (from Active Directory)
```

```
{{strongpwd}} - A randomly generated strong password
```

```
{{directory_name}} - User's directory name
```

```
{{account_name}} - OneLogin Account name
```

```
{{account_url}} - Subdomain Login (e.g. mycompany.onelogin.com)
```

```
{{password_url}} - Password Set URL, which allows a user to create a password
```

```
{{onelogin_id}} - OneLogin ID (a unique integer assigned to each user by OneLogin). This is primarily intended for mapping to a custom field and provisioning a unix ID to Active Directory.
```

```
{{generate_uuid}} - Generates a UUID for a user.
```

```
User custom fields can also be used in a macro. The syntax is {{custom_attribute_<name>}} where <name> is the shortname of the custom field (i.e {{custom_attribute_foo}}).
```

If you want to add additional actions for the triggering condition, click the plus **+** button. You can configure multiple actions per notification event.

## Enable or Disable Notifications

### Enable

- The default notification types are enabled by default. To enable custom notifications, go to the Notifications page, open the custom notification, and go to **More Actions > Enable**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/69e9f9c7-5da8-45e7-a671-4b8287f36122/Images/Documentation/image-1613512751211.png)

### Disable

- To disable a notification, open it and go to **More Actions > Disable**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/69e9f9c7-5da8-45e7-a671-4b8287f36122/Images/Documentation/image-1613512751249.png)

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**Further Reference**

KB Article: [Automated AD Connector Notifications](/v1/docs/active-directory-connector-automated-notifications)

External Site: [OneLogin Knowledge Base](https://onelogin.service-now.com/support/?id=kb_view2)