Purpose

• This article will demonstrate how to insert time stamps/date stamps into notifications generated by the rules engine. 

Required permissions

• DROOLS_CREATION_RULE
• EDIT_RULES

Instructions

1. Insert the following action into any Drool in the component module to insert a time and date stamp into a Notification. 

then
java.time.LocalDateTime start = java.time.LocalDateTime.now();
java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter formatter = java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MMM-dd HH:mm:ss");

insertLogical(new com.iriusrisk.drools.model.ComponentNotification(NotificationType.ALERT, "<Notification Unique ID>", start.format(formatter) + " <Notification Message>", $component.getComponentReferenceId()));

2. A full example is inserted below. This example inserts this notification if a GCP PostgreSQL component is added to a diagram for a condition. 

The resulting output looks like the following: