Comments on: How To Create Alerts Programmatically

By: sudheer

sudheer — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:57:53 +0000

Hi,

I tried the above example…it worked without any errors…but it is not showing any programmatically created alerts in my alert subscription management page…How can i know that alerts are configured?

Thanks,
PVSAVSG.

By: Mark Kamoski

Mark Kamoski — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:27:06 +0000

Dear Erwin –

Please help.

Regarding creating SharePoint Alerts Programmatically, I saw your article here…

http://www.sharepointology.com/development/how-to-create-alerts-programmatically/

…and it was quite helpful so thank you for that…

…however, I still need to know how to set the “Send Alerts for These Changes” options programmatically…

…so do you know how to set this option using the SharePoint Object Model programmatically in a Web Part…

Send Alerts for These Changes
Send me an alert when:
- Anything changes
- Someone else changes an item
- Someone else changes an item created by me
- Someone else changes an item last modified by me
- Someone changes an item that appears in the following view: (DropDownList)

…???

Please advise.

Thank you.

- Mark Kamoski

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:13:41 +0000

I have a few questions about this. Can I use this to provide another option in the “Alert Me” button besides “Set alert on this list”?? How do Implement the code above to add the new alert?

I’m asking because I need the ability to (per user) have some custom code execute whenever something on my list changes.

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By: mahmoud

mahmoud — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:06:09 +0000

thnx for this great article ,
i have a question , can i create 1 alert on more than 1 lists (to send all notifications in one email) ???

By: Kelly Ford

Kelly Ford — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:29:54 +0000

Great post. Worked perfectly. Thank you very much.

By: Devanshu

Devanshu — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:53:30 +0000

hi ervin,Thank u for this useful stuff…it was the thing for which i was searching..
but i have another query when we add alert programmatically they are not shown in the list like my alert..to display those what need to be done …can anybody help me on this…

By: Bharath

Bharath — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:26:50 +0000

Guys, If you are subscribing alerts for some other user, you should be the administrator or should have permisssions to manage alerts.
Else run the code with
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrevilages(delegate()
{
web.AllowUnSafeUpdates=true;
/Here comes the code
});

By: ThiruKumaran

ThiruKumaran — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:08:21 +0000

Hi ervin today full time i spent for this. Now i am at home my house. I hope this is what i want.. Any thanks for your sharing ….. All the best for your future endeavor.

Thanks
Murali kumaran.

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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:56:51 +0000

[...] I recently ran into a problem creating alerts in a web part for the current user. After the alert was added, no matter what I set the SPAlert’s EventType to, it always defaulted to All. I finally figured out a way around this problem thanks to a helpful post by erwin at sharepointology. [...]

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:35:21 +0000

This post is very useful for me. I have a question here. Can anybody tell me how to pass parameters to AlertTime property to set AM or PM timings

Thanks in advance
Reetha

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By: Robert Graauw

Robert Graauw — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:38:52 +0000

Hi I have a little question. One of the columns in my listitem is a lookupfield. i’ve set up a mailserver to send the alerts which works fine when I update other columns. I get an email specifying that something has changed. However, when the lookupfield changes. I do not get alert.

Is there anything special going on with lookupfields that would not trigger an alert?? and what could I do to get the alert working when a loopkupfield changes??

By: Erwin

Erwin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:29:41 +0000

A few things to mention,

Do you have enough rights to add alerts for other users on the site/list/item your are trying this, try to do this by using the web interface of SharePoint to add an alert for someone else.

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By: A few things to mention

A few things to mention — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:09:26 +0000

It seems that no matter what I do, it won’t add it to the user’s subscriptions.

I’ve tried calling update on all three involved objects (User, Alert, Web) but it seems like nothing will make the event show up in their Alert subscription management page.

Is there anything else?