List/Library level custom alert template

Question

All, I am following the instructions from here (custom alert template) to set custom alert template for a list/library. I have a document library for which I would like custom alert email. Following are the steps I did:

• Copy OOB alerttemplate.xml and name it alerttemplateTest.xml
• Modified the existing template SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary
• Added new template to new alerttemplateTest.xml (SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary.Test)

• Ran the stsadm command:

  STSADM -o updatealerttemplates -url <http://urlname> -filename <your working copy filename>
  

• Updated list.AlertTemplate to the new template (SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary.Test) for "Shared Documents" within a site through object model

For all the document libraries, the alert email reflect the changes i made in SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary. But the emails for Shared Documents I set to SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary.Test doesnt contain the changes. The emails contain changes for SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary. Through the object model, i can see that "Shared Documents" has the correct template, which is SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary.Test. Did i miss anything?

I appreciate any help on this.

Thanks!!!

Answer 1

It could be any one of a hundred issues with custom alerts, but one of the landmines is that existing alerts on the list still refer to the original template name of "SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary". Try creating a new alert and testing that.

If that works, then you will need to modify your code a bit to update existing alerts to use the new template.