An alert is usually a notification message to draw one's attention to an event such as a change or error condition.

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Cannot change the site collection administrator - error?

I am trying to change the Site Collection administrator for a site collection, in Central Admin. under Site Collection Administrators. When I select a new user from the lookup I get the "Error. An ...
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Can I subscribe to all discussion boards with single alert (2010)?

In SharePoint 2010, is there any way to subscribe to all of a site's discussion boards easily? I do not want to have to create alerts for each individual discussion boards as there will be quite a ...
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Increase alert e-mail Subject and Body size limit in sharepoint 2010?

I would like to know how we can increase the length of the Subject and Body of alert e-mails in SharePoint 2010. At the moment they're cut off after a specific number of characters.
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SharePoint Notification to users on Site update

The requirement is whenever any content is updated on a SharePoint website an alert email should be sent to the users(group) of that site.The content can be anything including adding home page images ...
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Sharepoint list Immediate alerts issue

I have set Immediate alerts on sharepoint list. see this image.. Now issue is when any changes into that sharepoint list, i got alert on next day but not receive alert Immediate. I also check ...
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2010 - Email a selection from a datasheet

Environment: 2010 Enterprise One of our sites has several lists created from uploading spreadsheets and viewing them in a datasheet view. Some users have been asking if there's a way to easily select ...
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How to edit a search alert

I have some users who have set up alerts based on search results using the 'alert me' button. The user would like to modifiy the search query that produces the results however it does not appear as ...
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Receive a task notification for any task assigned to you - your group or not

Is there a general place to set up notifications on tasks so that anyone who has a task assigned to them will receive a notification - not dependant on if they have set up an alert for that list or ...
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List Expiry Date Reminder

I have a Sharepoint 2007 Announcement List which have an Expiry Date for every Item .. I have really tried too much in this, but I came up short. I want to send an alert when an Item or Announcement ...
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Sharepont List alerts get fired twice

i have set alert on list item "AssignedTo" (A task is assigned to Me). It was working fine since last 1.5 year. But now suddenly it fires twice. So all of the users assigned Task get alert twice. I ...
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Daily and weekly alerts always send

I have created sharepoint alerts programmatically. If I check 'manage my alerts' all values are correct such as "Weekly", "Friday", "6:00pm" then I add an item to the list and receive an alert email ...
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SPWeb.Alerts.Add() vs. SPUser.Alerts.Add()?

Can someone explain the difference? Why I want to know: I needed to use c# to create an alert and assign multiple users to it. I assume that would be SPWeb.Alerts.Add but they both seem to be the ...
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Daily summary alert split into multiple emails

Pretty simple problem that apparently was experienced by a lot of people in MOSS, but extensive research has produced exactly zero answers. Environment: 2010 SP1 August CU, single-server farm with ...
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task assigned to “person” on “date” is overdue

The task that is mentioned in the title status is cancelled, but it still sends out that it is overdue, please advise me if you know how to stop this issue.
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Using Custom Claim Provider in defining alerts

I've implemented a custom claims provider in order to replace the people picker in a web application that uses ADFS as a trusted token issuer. For authentication purposes it works great, I can search ...
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Not Getting Task Changed Emails

I am not getting the task has been changed emails. I am getting the assigned and reassigned emails. I have looked at the timerjobs and everything seems to be running and is not disabled. Anyone ...
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Empty taxonomy fields in OOTB SharePoint alert e-mail

When subscribed to a document library - and a document is uploaded - the subscribed user is successfully sent an e-mail including details of the uploaded document. But it's a custom content type and ...
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Email users, unless they appear in list

I have a series of forms which users are required to fill in by a certain date. 5 days before this date I'd like to send out an email reminder to those who have not completed it. Is there a way of ...
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Weekly Digest of changes to SharePoint Documents?

I want to be able to get a daily email notifying me of changes to certain libraries that I select. So what I was thinking is to set an alert for each library that I am interested in receiveing ...
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Why can't I create a new issue tracking list alert with a daily or weekly digest?

A site owner in my site collection created a new Issue Tracking list from the default list template, then added a handful of custom columns from the default list of available column types. When they ...
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Modify list alerts to send 72 hours prior to date field

I've searched around, and surprisingly I haven't seen anyone with the same specific question. I have a user that wants to use the Alert functionality on a list, but only send 72 (or 48) hours prior ...
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Creating filter for SPAlert Programatically

We are trying to create SPAlert programatically in Sharepoint 2007 portal, but we are encountering an issue while creating CAML query for eight parameters to filter. The e-mail is getting triggered ...
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Add group mailbox to sharepoint alerts

I would like to set up an alert on my Sharepoint library list. Can we add group mailbox to sharepoint alerts?
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Update the default DiscussionBoard alert template

I am following in the path of many - and attempting to change the OOTB alerts. I have created a copy of the alerttemplates.xml, and made changes to the SPAlertTemplateType.DiscussionBoard ...
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One email for changes to multiple lists/document libraries

I need to send one email for changes to multiple lists/document libraries. Is this at all possible??? And to make it even more complicated I need this one email to be sent weekly containing all these ...
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Alert on All Items added automatically and erroneously on item insert or update

When a specific user adds or updates an item in a specific list, an alert automatically created for that user, set to notifiy them of changes/inserts to "All Items". This shouldn't be happening, but ...
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Server Object Model: Retrieve alerts for a folder in Doc Library

I need to find out if a user has alert set for a folder within Document Library. Can someone please advise how to do so? I am able to do so for Folder Items but not for the folder itself. Thanks MS ...
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How can I change HTTPS to HTTP in order to send an SMS from SharePoint 2010?

I want to send SMS from sharepoint 2010 but in my country we can't use a https request to send the sms. How can I send sms in sharepoint with http request?
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Custom From Address in List Alerts

We are using host-named site collections in our environment sharing one web application. The problem is that when a user set alerts on their lists/items in their sites, they receive the alerts from ...
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CAML strip or remove HTML tags in custom AlertTemplates.xml

is there any way to remove the html tags for text in CAML? I have made a custom alert template when sending e-mails that uses a field that looks like this: <'GetVar Name="DisplayName#{Field}" ...
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Alert managment

I'm using SharePoint 2007, I create custom list. on that list I create alert designed for 3 people. now I want to change the alert definition for these people, but when I enter to the alert list I ...
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SharePoint Email Alert when particular user sends an email

I'm not sure if this question has been asked, but I was wondering is there a way to send an email alert to a user when an email is sent from a certain user in SharePoint 2010. I know you can send ...
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Single user not receiving e-mails regarding Alerts

I am having a minor issue related to a single user on my Sharepoint Server 2010 setup. I have a single user who does not receieve Alerts, neither when creating an alert, or in cases where the user is ...
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Receiving alerts when a column value has changed in SP 2003?

In SP 2003 I cannot see a way to alert a user when a specific value in a column has changed? In MOSS 2007 I would have solved this problem by setting up a simple SP Designer workflow. Though these ...
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Sharepoint 2010 ALERT settings - customize possible set of lists

I want to customize possible set of lists on which user can set "alerts ON". Customizing just ribbon button ("Alert me") for not showing on specific list isn't enough because - on some list on which ...
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Sharepoint Alerts

Thanks very much for your responses so far! I'm trying to set up a single alert in a basic Sharepoint site that is set so that only "Existing Items are Modified" and "When a Task Becomes Complete" ...
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modified alert notification sharepoint 2007

How can I modified alert notification in sharepoint 2007. I need to : 1. change field order. 2. remove column that not relevant to the alert. (without using the designer or sharepoint server)
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Revising without cluttering [closed]

Is there a way to revise and update company website announcements, text etc. alerting viewers to the fact that a change has been made without clogging up the website with previous versions thank you

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