Defining an escalation action for a stage and a process

Ensure that your business case moves forward in a timely manner by defining an escalation action for a stage and a process in your case life cycle. By notifying interested parties about an elapsed goal or deadline, you can keep the time frames that you agree on for your business use cases.

For example, if an HR worker fails to meet the goal for running a background check on a job candidate, a reporting manager receives a notification. If the worker misses the deadline, the manager receives an email message with relevant details.

Before you begin: Define notification channels. For more information, see Notification channels.

1. In the navigation pane of App Studio, click Case types, and then click the case type that you want to open.
2. In the Case life cycle section, click the element of a case life cycle for which you want to define an escalation action:
   • To send a notification after a goal or deadline for a stage elapses, click the stage.
   • To send a notification after a goal or deadline for a process elapses, click the process.
3. In the Properties pane, click the Goal & deadline tab.
4. From the Use Service-level agreement (SLA) list, select Custom SLA.
5. In the Goal section, in the Notify subsection, select the recipients of the notification:
   • To notify the creator of the case, select Creator.
   • To notify the participants of the case, select Participants.
6. If you choose to notify participants, click Manage participants, select the case participants that you want to notify, and then click Done.
7. In the Message subsection, select a message type:
   • To send a standard notification, select Use default message.
   • To compose an email message, select Compose a message, provide a subject, click Compose, enter your message, and then click Done.
8. In the Deadline section, create a notification by repeating steps 5 through 7.
9. Click Save.

What to do next: Notify users that work on mobile devices about elapsed goals and deadlines by enabling push notifications. For more information, see Sending push notifications about case events.