Customizing event definitions

You can use the Venafi Configuration Console (or the Logging MMC snapin) to customize existing event definitions.

To customize an existing event definition

1. Open the Venafi Configuration Console (or the Tools MMC snapin), and open the Tools node.
2. Click the Event Definitions node.
3. In the bottom panel, double click on an Event.

4. You can customize both the Description and the Translation.

   Macros are allowed. You can see what content will be provided in the macros when you look at the event definition.

   For example, if the content for Text 2 is "Contact", you could incorporate the corresponding macro, $Event.Text2$, like this:

   For additional information, please reach out to $Event.Text2$.

   If you incorporated this into an email notification, the resulting paragraph would replace $Event.Text2$ with the contact's name, and might look like this:

   For additional information, please reach out to Jon Smith.

5. When you're done, click Apply.

Resetting to original event definitions

When you change an event definition, it gets marked as "customized" and is protected from changing during upgrade. You can revert an event definition to the default by clicking the Undo arrow next to the event description or the event translation.