CAESES Push Messages and E‑Mail Notifications

CAESES® 4.0 comes with a fan­tas­tic new feature: A first version for sending push messages and status emails auto­mat­i­cally to your mobile phone during design engine runs! No matter where you are, once your design engine is running, CAESES® keeps you up to date about the current status of your product studies and opti­miza­tion runs. CAESES® users simply specify the type of infor­ma­tion that should be sent auto­mat­i­cally, as well as how often it should be sent. An example could be: ​“Send me the objec­tive values after each 5th design”, and CAESES® takes care of it.

Note that this is only the begin­ning, a proof-of-concept so to say. In this first step our goal is to collect your feedback on this. Let us know what you think about it, and what kind of wishes you still have. With your input, we will make it an integral part for auto­mated studies and opti­miza­tions with maximum ease-of-use. If you would like to test this new feature, simply follow the steps below. Enjoy! 

How Does it Work?

For push messages, create a new notifier by typing ​“notify()” into the console. Alter­na­tively, type ​“mailer()” if you want to send emails. In the project tab of CAESES® (the small ​“P” tab in the upper left corner of the object tree), con­fig­ure the notifier by choosing your service and enter your API key. CAESES® supports iOS (Prowl), Android (NMA) and Windows Phone (Toasty). 

Create a new notifier setup via menu > features > tools > design engine notifier and con­fig­ure it: 

In your design engine, enter ​“notifier.run()” to the design post-pro­cess­ing commands: 

That’s it. For a running design engine in CAESES®, users of e.g. Android will then see the fol­low­ing noti­fi­ca­tions on their mobile phone: 

CAESES Expert? Hang on!

A final remark for inter­ested CAESES® users: Note that we use a feature for setting up the noti­fi­ca­tions. When you look into the def­i­n­i­tion of this feature, you’ll see how every­thing is set up, and you can fully cus­tomize and modify the content that is sent to your mobile phone (headers, for­mat­ting etc)! Play around with it, this is cool stuff — at least for some of us ;-)