SAP Ariba Readiness Feature Preview - Disable email notifications to large groups

Some email notifications are sent to users who belongs to a certain Group. Depending on configuration, this would lead to unwanted email notifications being sent to a user group with very large number of members.  This feature enables a way to limit email notifications to be sent to large groups. A new parameter, "Application.ACM.TaskEmailGroupLimit", will control whether or not we will send to a group based on a number of users limit. This feature and parameter only applies to task-related notification emails and does not affect emails being sent to groups as part of an approval workflow.

Examples;
1) If the value is set to 500 and there are 1000 individual people added as an observer, they would get an email notification.
2) If the value is set to 500 and there is 1 group with 1000 people in it, they would not get a notification.
3) If the value is set to 500 and there are 2 groups with 400 unique users in each, all 800 users would get the notification.
4) If the value is set to 500 and there is 1 group with 1000 people in it and 1 group with 400 people in it, the group with 400 people would get the notification.

For notification tasks, if no emails will be going out, there will be an error message in the UI to state that all the groups are too large to be sent to at the time of saving. For other tasks, like To-Do tasks, when there is a group too large, we would log it in the system that the group will not be sent the email due to the parameter value.

This presentation was prepared by Solutions Manager: Rob Jones
Planned Feature Release: March 2018