2.6. Using Alerts to Notify You When Your List Is Changed
Did you want to know when someone makes changes or additions to a list, but you dread having to spend time reviewing each list every day? What if SharePoint could notify you of changes or additions made to the list? Well, it can. With the Alert Me feature of lists and libraries, you can have SharePoint send you an e-mail whenever someone modifies or adds an item to any list.
To set up an alert for a list, first open the list. If you set an alert when you create a new list, you can monitor all changes to it from its beginning. With the list page displayed, open the Actions menu and select Alert Me from the drop-down menu as shown in Figure 2-31.
Figure 2.31. You define an alert by first ...
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