Configuring the Potion Ingredient

You can configure the Potion Ingredient as a Trigger or as an Action of your Potion.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: During the configuration of Potion, add the Potion Ingredient. For more information, see Configuring Potion.

Configure the I send an email to my Potion Trigger

You can configure Potion with the Potion Ingredient as a Trigger to make Potion execute its Actions whenever you send it an email.

  1. From the When menu, select I send an email to my Potion.
  2. Optional: Customize the email address of your Potion by doing either of the following:
    • In the Potion email address field, enter any text to create the local-part of the email address.
    • Click to generate another random local-part.

    Important: The local-part must be unique to this Trigger. You will not be able to save your Potion if the local-part you specified is already used by a Potion of yours or of any user with whom you share the same 3DEXPERIENCE platform environment.

  3. Optional: Add one or several of the following conditions:
    ConditionDescription
    Address of sender contains Potion is only triggered when it receives an email from an email address that contains the text value you have entered in this field. For example, @yourcompany.com.
    Name of sender containsPotion is only triggered when it receives an email whose sender contains the text value you have entered in this field. For example, John Doe.
    Content contains Potion is only triggered when it receives an email whose body contains the text value you have entered in this field.
    Subject contains Potion is only triggered when it receives an email whose subject contains the text value you have entered in this field.

    Note: For each condition, you can enter several text values.

  4. Click Save.

The email address of your Potion is created and appears on the Details tab of the widget. Your Potion executes its Actions whenever you send an email that complies with the conditions you set at step 3 to that email address.

You can attach files to your email. Supported files types depend on the Action(s).

Note: The emails that you send to a Potion are automatically deleted from all servers as soon as all the Potion widgets that must be triggered by these emails have been triggered.

Configure the I request my Potion URL Trigger

You can configure Potion with the Potion Ingredient as a Trigger to make Potion execute its Actions whenever you enter and access its URL from a web browser.

  1. From the When menu, select I request my Potion URL.
  2. Optional: Customize the URL of your Potion by doing either of the following:
    • In the Potion URL field, enter any text to create the path of the URL.
    • Click to generate another random path.

    Important: The URL must be unique to this Trigger. You will not be able to save your Potion if the URL you specified is already used by a Potion of yours or of any user with whom you share the same 3DEXPERIENCE platform environment.

  3. Click Save.

The URL of your Potion is created and appears on its Details tab. To make Potion executes its Action(s), enter and access that URL from a web browser.