V2/CMS Tutorial/User Tools/Creating Content/Automation/Event/Inputs

Event Inputs

Event inputs are used to pass information from a triggered expression to the event, and on to the event's action/alarm.

This section explains how the embed formula is used to embed an event's input values into its description and action's content. There are two ways of doing so:

1. Embed using the UI
2. Embed Formula

See Embed Node Information to learn how to pass information from a triggered expression to the event inputs.

Embed using the UI

1. Select the user-defined input which will be shown in the Click to embed input field (under the message of an event's action/event's description box).

Embed Formula

• Input formula must begin with "${" and end with "}".
• Content enclosed within the brackets consist of 1 to 2 words, separated by ".".
  • General: ${<input_name>.<2nd word>}
  • 2nd word is used to format the embedded value

Format Values

The CMS supports two types of formatting:

• Round values
• Format date

Round

Note:Value of <input_name> must be a number.

• Round values to nearest integer: ${<input_name>.round()}
• E.g. ${asset_id.round()}

Format Date

Note:Value of <input_name> must be a datetime.

Dates are parsed using Moment in UTC mode. Refer to docs here.

You can format using:

• Organization's default date-time & UTC offset: ${<input_name>.to_date_str()}
  • E.g. {date_of_incident.to_date_str()}
• Specified <preset> format & organization's default UTC offset: ${<input_name>.to_date_str(<preset>)}
  • E.g. ${date_of_incident.to_date_str(iso)}
• Specified <preset> format & <utc_offset>: ${<input_name>.to_date_str(<preset> <utc_offset>)}
  • E.g. ${date_of_incident.to_date_str(iso -100)}
• Specified <format> & <utc_offset>: ${<input_name>.to_date_str(<format> <utc_offset>)}
  • E.g. ${date_of_incident.to_date_str('MM/DD/YYYY' -100)}

List of available presets

	Preset	Equivalent Format	Sample Output
ISO (Year first)	iso	YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ	1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00
	year_first
	iso_date	YYYY-MM-DDZ	1997-07-16+08:00
	year_first_date
Day first	day_first	DD-MM-YYYYTHH:mm:ssZ	16-07-1997T19:20:30+01:00
	day_first_date	DD-MM-YYYYZ	16-07-1997+01:00
Month first	month_first	MM-DD-YYYYTHH:mm:ssZ	07-16-1997T19:20:30+01:00
	month_first_date	MM-DD-YYYYZ	07-16-1997+01:00
Time	time	THH:mm:ssZ	T19:20:30+01:00
Unix	unix	X	1360013296
	unix_ms	x	1360013296123