It seem that every quarter I get a dozen or so questions about how to get e-mail alerts when someone responds to a SharePoint Survey, or creates an announcement on our Windows SharePoint Services 2003 Intranet.

To save myself having to show people all the time, here is a video tutorial on creating an e-mail alert in Microsoft SharePoint Services:

And here are the simple step by step instructions on creating the alert:

  1. Open the survey or announcement page that you wish to be alerted for.
  2. Click on the “Action” bottom and the click on the “Alert Me” link that appears.
  3. Fill in the title and other requested information.
  4. Click on the “OK” button.

There you go, you have now set-up an e-mail alert to be sent to you when someone fills in a survey or places an announcement on your Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Intranet.

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6 Replies to “How to Create an E-Mail Alert in Microsoft SharePoint Services”

  1. any idea what to do when the alert don’t come. I only ever receive alert when a survey is updated or deleted

  2. Great instructions but I got an error on my email address so will have to ask my IT department.

    PS it’s ‘Action button’ not ‘Action bottom’

  3. It’s genuinely very compoex in this active life to listen news on TV, so I simply use the web
    for that reason, and get the mozt up-to-date news.

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