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Object documentationAlert Monitor Window

 

Displays the alerts depending on the chosen overall alert profile or application-specific alert profile.

 

You can access Alert Monitor Profile Maintenance from the Alert Monitor window, by choosing the Alert Profile pushbutton. For more information, see Alert Profile Maintenance.

You can manage your favorites, assign and adopt substitutes, schedule running alerts in the background and change user-specific settings, by choosing the Favorite Management pushbutton. For more information, about favorite management, see Assigning Favorites and Substitutes. For more information about user-specific settings, see User-Specific Display Hierarchy.

Structure

The Alert Monitor window consists of the following screen areas:

Alert Profile Selection

Here you select the overall alert profiles, for which you want the system to display alerts. You can choose overall alert profiles from the following selection options:

  • Favorites

    Here, you can select the overall alert profiles you previously saved as favorites.

  • Substitutions

    Here you can select other users' overall alert profiles, and work with these as a substitute, if they first appoint you as a substitute, and then you accept the appointment by choosing Adopt Substitute.

  • Saved Alert Situations

    Here you can select overall alert profiles that have been processed in the background.

Alert View Selection

Here, the system displays the number and priority of alerts for each hierarchy node. You can select alerts to be displayed in detail by selecting the Selection checkbox.

You can configure the display hierarchy for the object selection in the User-Specific Display Hierarchy.

If you click a priority icon, the system only displays alerts of the selected priority for the hierarchy node you choose.

Display Area of the Alerts

Here, the system displays a list of all the selected alerts. For further processing, the following functions are available:

  • You can process alerts, for example hide, forward, freeze or delete them, send them as a document, email or SMS, or take note of them.

  • Depending on the alert type, you can use the context menu of an alert to go to the corresponding application functions to resolve the planning problems that caused the alert.

  • You can, for example, sort, filter, print, export, or change the layout of the list.

  • You can change the time zone used in the display in the Alert Monitor window, by choosing Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Environment Next navigation step Time Zone for Display End of the navigation path.