Tutorial: Forward Event Data to Actions

In the Hello World Tutorial, you have seen how to set up a basic working example on the ECA engine. But one important key capability of the system, the forwarding of Event information to Actions, still needs to be introduced.

If you have not completed the Hello World Tutorial yet, you should go through the tutorial in order to setup a working example which you can edit.

1. Edit your “Hello World Rule”

1.1. Click on “Edit Rules”, in the navigation:

You see a list of all your active Rules, which currently only consists of your Hello World Rule. Hover over the icon that looks like a sheet of paper with a pen on top. A tooltip saying Edit Rule appears.

1.2. Click on the “Edit Rule” icon of the Hello World Rule:

You will see the Rule as by the end of step 2 of the Hello World Tutorial.

1.3. In the ACTIONS section of the Rule, change the msg from Hello World to #{ .subject }:

1.4. Click on “Save Rule” and confirm the popup request.

2. Push an Event with data into the system

2.1. Click on “Push Event”, in the navigation:

This time you need to leave the body section with the subject, because this piece of information is what you are referring to in the Rule now, since you typed #{ .subject } in the msg argument of the Logger -> writeLog Action Dispatcher.

2.2. Type Data forwarding test in the subject of the Event’s body:

2.3. Click on “Push Event into System” and the system will respond with Thank you for the event: button-click:

3. Check the Tutorial Result

Now you need to check the Rule log again in order to see the result of this data forwarding tutorial.

3.1. Click on “Edit Rules”, in the navigation:

3.2. Click on the “Show Rule Log” icon of the Hello World Rule:

Ỳou should now see the manually triggered Event with the logged message consisting of your forwarded data Data forwarding test:

Congratulations, you successfully forwarded data from an Event to an Action Dispatcher!