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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How to modify the sharepoint 2010 NewItem2 function?
In sharepoint 2010, I want to add javascript to the alerts popup window page, but I don't want to modify the actual layouts file. I want to dynamically insert javascript in it. Basically the button to ...
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Can Sharepoint 2010 be setup to send an alert with changes only
We are using sharepoint alerts to send out wiki page change notices. However, when the wiki page is very complex, it is difficult to see exactly what changed.
Is it possible to setup the sharepoint ...
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Sharepoint 2007 Alert emails going to wrong account
We've got a Sharepoint 2007 site, and alerts are in place for changes to Tasks & Milestones, so users receive emails whenever they are assigned a new Task.
However, many of those emails are going ...
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Redirecting to a new web page after adding a new item in the list
After clicking "Save" button in the pop-up (for adding a list item), I want to redirect to a page to show them a message "Success" or at least an alert window called "Success"?
How can it be ...
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Alert on document library comes through 3 times
I am using SharePoint 2010......when I create an Alert I do get an email saying I created the Alert, but when I do something that will kick of the Alert I do get the email that say I added a new ...
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List does not exist - My Alerts on this Site->Add Alerts
When I try to access the URL - http://sample.url.com/sites/SiteColl/SPE/_layouts/SubChoos.aspx, it throws the below error however it is working for the other subsites
12/06/2011 16:08:45.59 ...
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how to set list alert using javascript in sharepoint 2010?
I need to set a list alert for current (logged in) user using javascript.
var currentcontext = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();
var currentweb = currentcontext.get_web();
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What needs to be fixed with this custom alert template?
I've customized alert notification template for Announcements list. Here is custom code:
<Immediate>
<Subject>
<Switch>
<Expr>
<GetVar ...
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Access denied when user try to use Alert Me on a list - WSS v3
I have some users who have contribute access on a list and read access on the site but anytime it tries to alert himself he gets ERROR DENIED :(
Why is this.
I even gave him FULL CONTROL to the list ...
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“Send email when ownership is assigned?” Due Date functionality
I'm writing a blog article about the above feature (under lists' Advanced settings) and I'm finding it goshdarn hard to find a definitive reference on the subject.
In short, I've heard passing ...
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SharePoint OOTB Alert still sends an email even after deleting all instances of it
A while back we deleted an Alert on a list (the only Alert that was set on the list), yet an email is still being sent out, and when we try to check the settings of the Alerts on the list (and also ...
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Hide or Remove Workflow Columns on Alert Emails
Any idea how to hide/remove those columns that are generated with each workflow on Alert Me emails?
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How to manage alerts for multiple users without deleting?
New here and also very new to SharePoint.
I am looking for the best way to manage user and site alerts without deleting them. i.e making changes to the current alerts.
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Customizing Alert Template XML
I need to alter the Alerts Template for a particular list, but don't even know where to begin.
I know I need to make a copy of the xml file. Once I actually update the copy I need to execute some ...
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Is there a way, as a site Designer, to create functionality that periodically emails specific list items to a user?
I have a Sharepoint 2010 site which is hosted by my institution. I have "Design" access to the site so I can use Sharepoint Designer, but as far as I know I don't have developer access.
I created an ...
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PowerShell script in setting up multiple SharePoint Alerts
Another user (Charlie) is requesting to have alerts sent anytime a change is made on the "discussion board", "Batch Report" folder, "Reports" folder, and "Audits" folder within a single client site. ...
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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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SPAlert Original Creator
I have some search alerts that have been set up for users based on search results. We have some admins who create these alerts for other people. I am trying to find out a way to determine who created ...
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How do we set alerts for Announcement List or any lists for SharePoint groups
As we all know how to set user alerts for lists in sharepoint 2007, wss 3.0. I was wondering if it is possible to set alert to sharepoint group. So that when new item is added into the list, users in ...
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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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Customize “Additional Information Required” Email
We are using the Content Organizer in SharePoint 2010 to route documents to a central location. Before the documents are routed, however, there are a few required meta-data fields that need to be ...
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SharePoint Alert Me not sending alerts for a specific user
We use the SharePoint alerting infrastructure on a list on a site. Alert are currently active for a group of users and are working correctly. The environment is SharePoint wss3.0.
I have added a new ...
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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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Filter out folders from a user alert against a list
I have created an alert for a user against a list (more specifically, a document library).
I want the user to be notified of all changes regarding list items (documents) and not any sub folders.
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Why the announcements list sent e-mail (alert) doesn't have pictures?
Created a SharePoint 2010 Announcements List, and I configured it to receive e-mail, and set it up so I could receive alerts every time anything changes in the list.
Sent an e-mail to the list and the ...
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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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User alerts being sent for something that happened before alert was created
I create a web.
I create a doc library within this web.
Create folders within this doc library.
Then 'subscribe' (i.e. create an alert for) a user for this doc library.
Why, if I'm doing things in ...
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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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Cannot Sign Up for Alerts Because “You Have No Email Address”
When I create a new account in Active Directory, then sign in to Sharepoint (2010) with that account, and then try to sign up for alerts, I can, indeed sign up for alerts, but I get an error message ...
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Immediate-alerts Email Notification not sending emails
The alerts are working, but for some reason the " Send e-mail when ownership is assigned" on a task list is not working.
A task is assigned to a user however Immediate-alerts are not sending the ...
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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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Get Notified on List Item Changes - not using email
I'm searching for an easy way to display the latest changes of a sharepoint list.
Situation: one huge list (10k entries) with a lot of daily changes (lets say 100).
Target: Display the changes during ...
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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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SharePoint 2010 Document List
Good morning.
I have a set of requirements for some simple document storage and I am investigating the possibility of using an existing SharePoint 2010 system.
We need:
A location where multiple ...
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Longest practical filter for an alert
Environment: SP2010 Enterprise SP1, Server/SQL 2008 R2, VS2012
When building alerts through object model, what is the longest or most complex CAML filter that can be applied to them? Can they be as ...
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Dynamic content in SharePoint Workflow Email
i've got a Workflow which starts when a specific column has been updated. It basically just sends an Email to the requester. Quite straighforward.
Im struggling to insert a dynamic text inside the ...
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Possible to attach an event receiver to the list of user alerts?
There's seemingly loads of ways of overriding the OOTB e-mail notifications for creation and deletion of user alerts - can't you just attach an event receiver to the alerts 'list' (is it an SPList?) ...
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Modifying the contents/template of the sharepoint Search alert mail?
I'm doing some RND on SharePoint search alert! I'm looking on how to modify the SharePoint search alerts mail. as in the Daily Alert Summary. Is there anyone who knows to do this? Please note I'm ...
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Page expiry notification not sending emails - MOSS2007 / WSS3.0
Just looking for some ideas around how to solve this particular problem.
Case:
My Intranet pages (publishing pages with workflow) are flagged with an expiry date and I am using the notify page ...
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Fixing programmatic alert URLs
Environment: SP2010 Enterprise, SQL2008R2, VS2012, full server access
A while ago I created a massive amount of alerts using a c# console app I made in VS. The app ran on the server using SP ...
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How To: Send the Alert Emails to External Email Addresses?
In our SP2010 Intranet (Windows authentication) we are using "Alert Me" feature and it has been working great.
However, Currently we have a new difficult situation where we want to send the Alert ...
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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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SPListItem.SystemUpdate(false) is still triggering alerts
Environment: SP2010 Enterprise, VS2012, c#, full server access
Simple question...
I'm using a console app to create sub-folders in a document library based on user input, then calling ...
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SPAlert Timezone
I am trying to set the time on a weekly user aler to Friday 6pm. And I do but..
We have users in many diffrenet timezones. How I do I know which timezone will trigger the 6pm alert?
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Sharepoint 2010 Notifications not working
I'm trying to set up notifications in a production enviroment. I have already set up the notifications in a test enviroment which contains the same SMTP-adress that I need to use in production.
The ...
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Possible to turn off SharePoint 'subscription' confirmation e-mails given certain conditions?
For parts of a site I'm developing - I want the OOTB SharePoint e-mail notification of a newly created alert (i.e. subscription) to be sent to the recipient as it should. But on occasions when I ...
