Setting up alerts
Alerts are notifications of important changes that users need to know about, or reminders about actions that they need to take.
Example of alerts include notifications of a project status.
Collaborate users receive their alert notifications in these ways:
- In Collaborate: the Alerts icon (
) appears at the top of every page, and includes a counter that increments for each
alert received. Users click this icon to view notification messages in the
Alerts dialog. - By email: users who are set up with a valid email address receive notifications as messages in their email applications.
To set up alerts, you define values for configuration properties. You configure how often the system checks for the event-triggered alerts that track past changes separately from the alarm-type alerts that remind users of upcoming events.
You also specify default alert subscriptions.
Tip: Users can override the default notification subscriptions for specific instances of
the Collaborate objects. For information about how users work with alerts, see the
Collaborate User's Guide.