Alert me in sharepoint 2010 giving an error

Question

When i try to make an alert me for specific users in a list i get the following:

Error You can not create alerts for lists where users can only read their own items .

Correlation ID : 34f94da8-7571-4a39-9963-5adc27a133fb

The lists have specific permissions as the data is highly sensitive. So making a custom view isnt an option as the data can be found via search.

Any creative minds out there?

Answer 1

You cant get this done OOTB, the only way you can fix OOTB is increase their permission level to read to all.

• you can create a workflow which sent the notification when the item added.
• Or you can try to create a event receiver for same.
• Another approach is subscribing to the RSS feed of list.