Next we'll bind our notification topic to a template via a configuration. Templates can be associated with different delivery methods (email, PDF, etc.), written in different languages (English, Spanish, etc.), and aimed at particular roles (Buyer, Seller, Origin of Goods, etc.). Here is a breakdown of the different delivery methods:

Let's bind our topic to our template. Click the Add Topic button to see the screen below.

Click the Delivery Method drop down and select PDF, since we are going to be binding a PDF template with this topic. This will enable the Template dropdown, which will populate with any templates in your platform module that are PDF-compatible. Select the SampleTemplate template from the dropdown. The next two fields, Locale and Recipient Role, determine what kind of users will be able to subscribe to your notification. The locale is a reference to the language the template was written in. If you have one template written in English and one written in Spanish, you will need two templates and two notification configurations. If the user's locale preference matches the locale in the configuration, the notification will be sent using that template. If there is no match, it will try to find a match on the default locale of the user's organization. If there is no match again, it will default to English (if the only template uploaded is a locale other than English, it'll just send that). Our template was written in English, so select English from the Locale dropdown.

Next, fill out the recipient's role. Your notification may need separate templates based on the audience that will receive them. For example, a notification about a purchase order sent to a buyer might have the name of the seller on that purchase order, but it wouldn't have the buyer's name on it (because they would know their own name). It would be vice versa for the seller. In this case, you'd have two configuration and would fill out "Buyer" in the recipient role of one configuration and "Seller" in the other. If you have a generic notification that can be sent to many roles, you can add them in a comma separated list like this: "Buyer,Seller". Since our template is completely generic, type Buyer,Seller in the Recipient Role field.

For details on the Data Function field, please see Populate the Template.

Finally, set the Schema Version to 3.1 and the Target Type to Purchase Order. The Target Type should correspond to the object that will fire the notification. In this example we'll use the Purchase Order. Click the Save button at the top right of the platform module to save your work.

Once your platform module is published, your PDF should be viewable from the UI for the associated object type (Target Type) that is bound to the PDF.