Setting Up Alerts

An Alert notifies you when there is new information which has been changed on the portal site. You can customize your areas of interests and define when you want to be notified after the site has been updated. You can define an alert to track new matches to a search query, changes to the site page, or a new site addition.

Create Your E-Mail Alert

Log into your SharePoint server with your domain account and password.

In a Portal Site, click Alert Me.

Define your delivery options, and then click Next.

Click Advanced Options if you want to set up filters.

Click OK.

Did You Know?

You can use the following filter categories to be alerted with : Search queries, document and listings, areas, new listings, sites added to the site directory, sharepoint lists and libraries, list items, portal site users, and backward compatible document library folders.