General questions about userautomation stsadm commands

When you setup a User Automation Job all users in the membership provider will be effected. The Site URL property is only used as a lose association to your Web Application.

Regarding your OWSTimer.exe.config file. Theoretically a copy of your web.config file will work but your configuration file will contain a lot of unnecessary configuration elements. You can find a relatively simple configuration file sample from the link below. The only required elements are the <connectionStrings /> and the <membership /> tags. You will want to copy these tags from your web.config file. The <authentication /> and <authorization /> section are not needed in our OWSTimer.exe.cofig file.

(Sql Membership Provider : Example Section)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.sqlmembershipprovider.aspx

You will also need to restart your Windows SharePoint Timer Service to apply the changes. The last piece of advice I would give is to setup the User Automation Job to run every 2-5 minutes until you get everything working. Once it is working you can change the schedule to a longer interval like once a day.

User Automation activities are logged to the SharePoint ULS logs. You should see start, stop, error and other notifications in the log file. You can find the User Automation error messages by searching for the application key 'ExCM.UserAutomationEngine'.

To add the site name you can just use the {Site.Title} token. Regarding the {Zone.*.*} token. The only zone tokens available are {Zone.Invitation.*} or {Zone.Current.*}. You can find the mail message documentation at the link below. You will find a list of all the tokens and sample data at the bottom of the page.

(Configuring site messages)
http://help.sharepointsolutions.com/products/excm/Configuration_Emails.html

Hi Jeremy,

I think perhaps I made my last post too convoluted.  I am just focusing on the stsadm userautomation commands, specifically getting the site title in the subject or body of the email for which ExCM sends out emails on the different events:

AccountApproachingExpiration
AccountExpiration
PasswordApproachingExpiration
PasswordExpiration

We have a number of extranet sites and users.  They all hang off the web application of extranet.mycompany.com in the extranet zone.  Each of the users registers for a particular subsite.  I would like to have the subsite title in any of the email notifications to the extranet user so that he or she can click on it directly to update their password or login to the site.  The user may or may not know their subsite.

The {Url} token shows whatever I entered as the URL to the stsadm userautomation-createjob and not the actual site name to which the user is registered.  I am still having trouble getting the {Url.'Zone'} token to display correctly.

At least in my interpretation of the documentation you specified (http://help.sharepointsolutions.com/products/excm/Configuration_Emails.html), these tokens are when you invite users to register for a particular site, and after they register.  It seems, at least in how the documentation is written, that these tokens are not for when you are trying to configure the email messages when using the ststadm userautomation-setnotification command.

In any case, I tried to do as you suggested and added the {site.title} token to a customized message that I created using the template in "C:\Program Files\SharePoint Solutions\Extranet Collaboration Manager\Configuration\notification_PasswordExpiration.xml".  I then used the stsadm userautomation-setnotification command to change the path to my customized message which has the tokens specified in http://help.sharepointsolutions.com/products/excm/webframe.html?User_Automation_SetNotification.html.  The {site.title} token was not resolved when I received the email notification of the password expired event.

Is there anyway in which to get the actual site title (not the URL that I specified on the userautomation-createjob command) for which the user is registered to show in the notification emails?

I hope this post clarifies things.  I apologize if what I had written previously was misleading.  (I also feel like I'm missing something.)

Thanks again.

Unfortunately the User Automation command is not tied to any site or sub-site. The only URL data available is at the web application level. You can find the list of tokens from the link below. I did a quick review and found an error with the {Url.'Zone'} token. It appears the last bracket is omitted. Therefore you can use this token without the last bracket like {Url.Extranet or just hard-code the URL for the given zone. We'll add this to our issues list and correct it in a future release.

(User Automation Notification Messages)
http://help.sharepointsolutions.com/products/excm/User_Automation_SetNotification.html