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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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email alert to people in the list

The requirement is to send an email alert with the URL(same sharepoint URL) to the newly add list item. for example, if i add an employee detail in the list(which is having columns as employee name, ...
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SPAlert Created, But Not Sending Email

I have a SharePoint webpart that creates an alert for a user, for a specific list item (in this case, a document set). I am adding the alert programmatically. The code executes without any errors, ...
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SharePoint 2010- Send reminders from Task assigned

I am working on a project and its on SharePoint. I have to send reminders to Team Members whom I have assigned a task. But the workflows in SharePoint are restricted. We don't have the designer access?...
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How can I let readonly user use "Alert me" function

Because the "Alert Me" button is placed at the Ribbon bar, site visitors cannot see the "Alert me" button and cannot use this function. Anyway to allow visitors use Alert Me on document and library?
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Expiration Alert email

I need to write design a SPD workflow that send email to the person based on expiry date. The workflow should automatically update when the expiry date is updated. I have been working with post by Mr. ...
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Library email alert is not working any more after migrate site collections from contentdbA to contentdbB

I have migrated some site collections from contentdbA to contentdbB. I did this with a powershell command. After this I did an IIS reset. The site collections are working fine now. There is only one ...
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You cannot create alerts for lists for which users can only read their own items.

I am having a list in SP2013,when i am clicking on the list alerts i am getting the error like "You cannot create alerts for lists for which users can only read their own items". I am having Full ...
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Alert mail for "Pending" column in List SharePoint 2013

I'm using SharePoint 2013 online. I've created one List in which one Column is Choice (Completed, Pending) column named Status. For all Item If Status is Pending, weekly one mail should fire with List ...
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Sharepoint 2010 - Is a workflow the simplest way to send mail notifications?

I have inherited a Sharepoint 2010 site. I have found a simple "list" with a few custom fields that the company used before and wants to use again. A new list item SHOULD generate an email with the ...
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How to trigger alert mail from SharePoint Document Library

I want to store few documents in document library and after upload the document I want to give expire data for each document. Now here I want some alert mail from SharePoint before the particular ...
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Starting "Alert Me" automatically

I've come across to programmatically assign list/library alerts to a single SharePoint user, is it possible to do the same but for more than just one user or maybe a SharePoint group? Thanks in ...
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library email alert, sends emails and is not showing the whole subject

I am using sp 2010. I have a library and enabled the email alert. When someone adds a new document I got an email. In this email I see a subject with the title of the document. But the title is not ...
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sharepoint alert filter not working on first alert only then filtering is ok

have a strange behaviour with alerts on my sharepoint site. I have a document library where i want to add alerts to specific users when adding,updating,deleting folders or documents. Alerts must not ...
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Alerts on Document Library filter by user

I copy folders and documents to a document library by code through a feature. I am trying to prevent alerts from being fired when the document library is populated. I tried setting the Filter ...
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Alert sender has changed to [email protected]

I have some alerts on several lists in our site collection (office 365), untill today the sender (from) of the alerts was the title of the site that the list belongs to. I don't know what we have done ...
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how to hide modified column in alerts in Emailbody

I have to hide the Modified by Column in my Email body while coming alerts from list. Regards, Phani
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Alerts on List based on Items shown in View not working

I got a custom list with fairly standard columns: - Single line of text - Multiple lines of text - Choice - Number - Yes/No I set up a default alert on it, add an item, and just as expected, I get an ...
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How to get a list of alerts on MOSS 07

I need help getting a list of alerts on a MOSS 07 server. I'm trying to use STSADM. I saw the getproperty command for STSADM so I tried. STSADM -o getproperty -pv alerts-enabled -url http://...
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I do not receive document email alerts

I am using sp2013. I have a document library where I have full control permissions. I have set for my self the email alert for new documents and updates. When I add a new document or update an ...
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Available documentations about the “alerttemplates.xml” fields name and layout classes

I want to modify the default alerttemplates .xml alert template. But seems the only way to hide, display and change the components format is to know exactly the name of each components . Such as the ...
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How to remove the item content from my alerts templete

I am working on a team site that contains an announcement list & also on an enterprise wiki site. i set a general alerts for all users to be notified when any item is added/edited/deleted . ...
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Modify my SharePoint 2013 alerts' email body to provide a link to the item , instead of embeding the item content

I am working on a publishing site inside SharePoint 2013, and i set an alert for users to send them emails when a new page is created or modified. but the problem is that the alert email will contain ...
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How do “Send Alerts for These changes” works, inside “Alert Me”

I have a publishing site collection using the enterprise wiki, and then I have configured the outgoing email. Currently when users click on “Page Option  Alert Me” they will get the following dialog:-...
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Script Returning �

I use a lot of JavaScript in SharePoint, but today I came across a problem that I do not understand. Every time I use accents in a script such as in an alert, it returns the following strange symbol: �...
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How to get C# to recognize argument passed through PowerShell

I'm using PowerShell to call C# code to turn list alerts on or off on a specific list. When I try to use [AlertsOnOff1.onOff]::Main("off") to call the Main method and pass the arugment of "off"the ...
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SharePoint 2013 Health Report List alerts not sending emails, job-immediate-alerts last run time N/A in CA

We are trying to configure email alerts on the Central Admin Health Report list in SharePoint 2013. We get the confirmation email when the alert is first created, but nothing when a new error or ...
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Is there a way to temporarily disable existing alert emails from executing?

I have a powershell script the runs automatically once a week to move old list items to an archive list. On the current list my end users are receiving alerts when the item is moved (create/deleted) ...
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Libraries and Alerts

Is it best to load all documents into one shared documents library, tag them appropriately so they pull into the correct site page, and add folders with special permissions for different reports that ...
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Automatically Set Alerts on List

Is it possible to create a workflow or jquery function within the list's page that would allow a user to automatically be signed up for the built-in sharepoint alerts on any item they themselves ...
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Is it possible to break alerts in one site collection with client-side scripting?

We have a single site collection where alerts have been down for some time. After review, it was suggested that client-side Javascript (common ones like EasyTabs and SPServices) could break alerts. I'...
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Alert sends email when list item leaves view

I have two people, Frodo and Gandalf. I have a list with the person/group site column "Assigned To" I have a view "View1" that only shows items where Assigned To is empty I have another view "View2"...
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SharePoint 2013 Outgoing Email - Alerts

I have outgoing email woorking fine. When I add an alert to a list, the email goes on if an item is changed, however, the links are to the actual servername and not the hostname. Links in the alert ...
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Create multiple alerts for multiple lists at once

Creating an alert to be notified of changes in a list is a 5-6 clicks process in Sharepoint 2013. Our users need to subscribe to 30-40 lists so is there a way to do it "all at once" or somehow reduce ...
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Check if I have an alert set - client sided

How can I check if I have an alert set on a listitem from client-side?
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How to set a group alert

I have created a task list in sharepoint and created groups for teams. I want to mark groups in the assigned to section instead of having individual users. Also , want to set alert alert for group if ...
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Getting no e-mail alerts when list attachment has been modified

In our SP2010 lists, users who created e-mail alerts will not get notified when the list attachment (here: docx files) has been modified. This is the whether version is enabled or not. Is this ...
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'Alert Me' does not work on custom lists

We have several custom lists which are all deployed using WSPs along with some web parts to a SharePoint 2010 installation. Every time a user clicks on the 'Alert Me' button on a custom list or an ...
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How to update "The My site of user is scheuled for deletion" email message in SharePoint 2013

The MySite Deletion job is sending an email with subject "The MySite of is Scheduled for deletion". This email is sent to the manager and mysite is assigned to the manager. This email contains a ...
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How do you send emails to external email address in sharepoint online workflows

My client is using Office 365 and has SharePoint Online. Is there a way to send emails to external users or external email address using workflows? More Info: This is what happens when I try to ...
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Survey doesn't allow administrator to subscribe for alerts

I have a SharePoint survey where users can respond and see their own replies. Administrators can see all replies but when I want to make an alert me for an administrator, I receive the following error:...
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Receive alert when group membership or permissions change

My client is wondering how we might notify someone (or several someones) when group membership or permissions change. We would greatly prefer a no-code solution. We have Nintex Workflow available as ...
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Created Alert on View, Email containes Fields not in that View

Here is the list of fields in my Writer View: What I receive in my Email Alert is: The fields in the email do not match the fields in the View?
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Check if SPAlert is set to a Folder in a List

I have an SPAlert and want to check if it is set for a folder in a list. private static bool IsSetToFolder(SPAlert alert) { //How do I do that } Is there any way to do that in C#?
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SharePoint2010 is it possible to set an alert on change to column?

I have a user that would like alerts when specific columns in a list are changed. Is this possible OOTB or does it require some C#? If it requires some custom code, does anyone have resources to use ...
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Only show most recent edits in alerts

I have a blog site in which I've set up a weekly email alert on the Posts list but I can't seem to find the sweet spot of what it should show. Originally I had set it to send me alerts on "All ...
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SP13: Alert Me - Setup Email

I am not sure if this has already been addressed before. When setting up Alerts using "Alert Me" within a document library an notification email is sent to the any persons added to the "Send Alerts ...
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Sharepoint alerts based on file name or content tags

We have a Sharepoint report library that various different reports are uploaded to, which are from relevant pages/users based on their content tags. We want to allow users to subscribe to their own ...
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Is it possible to send alerts from calender list before the start time of an event?

we are having a calender list. Suppose we create an event with start time as 11:00am, then, is it possible OOB to send an alert (email) to the users (list column) at 10:30am (ie: 30mins prior to ...
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Distribution list in Secure group does not recieve alerts

We have a secure SD group name BNPAdmin, on which we have set alerts on a list. There is a distribution list named [email protected]. We have added [email protected] as a member of BNPAdmin but the mailbox ...
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Alerts not working - Timer Lock

I've checked content database; SELECT * FROM timerlock WITH (nolock) Then having checked the eventcache table; SELECT * FROM eventcache WITH (nolock) WHERE EventData is not null I've got a ...
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