Application management : Alerts : Working with Alerts : Adding an event-based notification definition
Adding an event-based notification definition
An event-based notification definition is almost similar to a general notification definition, except that it is based on an event or task and is triggered by a solution extension.
Procedure
1. Go to Event-based notification definitions.
2. On the action panel, click Add.
The procedure to add an Event-based notification definition is the same as adding a regular notification definition.
Perform the steps as described in Adding a notification definition.
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In order to be able to create an event-based notification definition, the selected user-defined business object must have status transitions.
On the Tasks step, a task is created by the solution extension which triggers the email/sms to be sent to the user.
For more information, refer to Task.
The task thus created, is picked by the Scheduler via the event-based notification and the emails/sms is sent whenever the event defined in the notification definition occurs.