Users can define many types of alerts to their specifications.
Only users defined in the Users - Setup
window can receive alerts. For more information, see Users - Setup Window.
For user-defined queries, you have defined a query in the Query Manager
window to enable the alert to be configured. For more information, see Query Manager.
Note
To select queries for the alerts, you also require authorization for the Query Manager
.
From the SAP Business One Main Menu
, choose . The window opens in Find
mode.
Switch to Add
mode and perform the following:
Specify a name for the alert.
Select a priority: Low
, Normal
or High
.
To enable sending messages for this alert, select the Active
checkbox.
Click the Open Saved Query
button, and in the displayed Query Manager
window, double-click the required query.
From the Users list, select the recipients of the message.
Define how the alerts are to be sent each user by selecting the appropriate checkbox, for example, by SMS.
Specify a value for the time interval between alerts, that is, how often an alert should be sent in the Frequency
field.
If this field is empty, the message is sent only once.
To display the log of alerts in the Messages / Alert Overview
window, select the Save History
checkbox.
Leaving the checkbox unselected causes each new alert to overwrite the previous one.
To save the alert, choose the Add
button.
The alert is now active and triggers a message to the selected users as soon as the event defined in the specific query occurs.