Tag Archives: Alerts

SharePoint List Rules

Microsoft Lists, AKA good old SharePoint lists, now have a new rules wizard.  This is a very simplified way of creating notification rules, to be notified about certain things happening in the list.  You can Create a rule, or click to Manage rules (edit or delete) rules that you’ve already created.  Here’s what it looks like, at the top of

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Video: SharePoint Logs and Analytics

Last month on SharePoint Power Hour, we did demonstration and discussed all of the various ways to look at usage logging and analytics in SharePoint and Office 365 in general.  A lot of people seemed to be interested in this topic, so I thought I’d share it with you here if you missed it. SharePoint usage reports exist at the

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Get Notified of Workflow Errors

This post applies to SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, and even SharePoint Online in Office 365. This DOES apply to SharePoint 2010 workflows created in SharePoint Designer 2013 (on prem or O365).  This DOES NOT apply to SharePoint 2013 workflows. They store errors very differently, so there isn’t an equivalent solution. There is a way in SharePoint to create alerts based

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Alerts Based on Views

This is a “SharePoint Tip of the week” email that I sent out to our site administrators in November of 2007.  Thought I’d share it… In ALL VERSIONS OF SHAREPOINT AND OFFICE 365, alerts can be set up based on filtered (specific) data, using views!  SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013 This applies to any SharePoint document library or list (contacts, calendars,

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