Adding an alert to a SharePoint page
SharePoint is a great place for people to share useful information. However, no doubt you are far too busy to keep checking your SharePoint sites on the off chance that someone posted something new. Alerts allow SharePoint to e-mail you when something interesting happens. This recipe shows you how to create them.
Getting ready
This recipe works for:
- SharePoint 2010 Foundation
- SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition
- SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
- SharePoint 2010 Online (Office 365 Edition)
It requires you to be logged in and have read access but no other privileges are necessary.
To create an alert, your SharePoint administrator will need to have configured your SharePoint server to send e-mail (or SMS messages). The ...
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