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.

• Format using organization's default date-time & UTC offset: ${<input_name>.to_date_str()}
  • E.g. {date_of_incident.to_date_str()}
• Format using a specified <preset> format & organization's default UTC offset: ${<input_name>.to_date_str(<preset>)}
• Format using a specified <preset> format & <utc_offset>: ${<input_name>.to_date_str(<preset> <utc_offset>)}
• Format using a specified <format> & <utc_offset>: ${<input_name>.to_date_str(<format> <utc_offset>)}