Alerts on Custom Views

Question

I've been searching everywhere for this, and it appears to have been an easily achievable task in WSS3, but doesn't seem available at all in SharePoint Foundation 2010.

I'm just trying to setup an alert for a view of a document library. I have created 4 views, one for each segment of data that I have available, but the only alert I seem to be able to setup is one to alert on any changes for the entire library...

Apparently, it used to be possible to just select the view you wanted to be alerted on, but now, this is nowhere to be found.

Can anyone confirm whether this is even possible now? It should be a simple piece of functionality, and I wouldn't expect to have to code anything..?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Alerts are at the library level, and were with previous versions as well. While you cannot tie an alert explicitly to a specific view, there is nothing stopping you from creating a simple workflow that notifies people when the criteria is met within the views.

Answer 2

How do you do this in 2007 or WSS 3.0? I'd love to be able to do that.

Answer 3

You CAN setup Alerts based on a view in WSS3/MOSS2007 onwards

See "Setting up Alerts on a View of a List"

You won't see every view and only the Gods seem to know exactly why you can see some views and not others.

1) It must have a where clause. All Items views don't show up in the list of views, and it's pointless to use an All Items view because it doesn't filter.

2) It must be a public view, it cannot be a personal view.

3) It cannot involve content approval.

See : Which views can be used when Creating an Alert ?