We have a schema in place where product creation is triggered by an API from our SAP system, our users are not therefore consciously aware when the new products will land in Pimberly [which is the start of their own process] - the current solution would trigger a notification per instance but in reality this could mean a user waking up to 250 e-mails if 250 products were created in SAP the previous day. Would it be possible for alerts/notifications to be a bit more mature e.g. a single alert notification that informs the user about the various actions that they need to know.
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Agree, the idea of notifications is really nice but per product makes it very unmanageable. Potentially to expand a little, maybe the alert can wait a certain period of time (like a feed/channel) before a list of products are sent to whoever is setup under a approval workflow. For example, we might want to check any new product creations every hour so we can set the frequency to 60 minutes.
@Kathryn: Not sure if its any help and you might do this already. I needed to do something similar before and a functional way was to create a workflow that released new products into a channel on creation and the export was then collected every morning which gave us a list of everything new to be worked on. A little manual but if you really wanted and have resource, you could dump the file to an FTP then build a logic app in something to pickup the file and email it to whoever needs it.
Thanks Colin, that is a great suggestion of how we could use existing functionality.