Maintaining Alert Subscriptions

This topic discusses maintaining your alert subscriptions.

Page Name

Definition Name

Usage

My Alerts Page

EPPAN_MY_ALERTS

View and maintain all of your alert subscriptions.

General Profile Information Page

USER_SELF_SERVICE

Maintain your system profile including the email address used for alert subscriptions.

Use the My Alerts page (EPPAN_MY_ALERTS) to view and maintain all of your alert subscriptions.

Navigation:

  • My Content, My Alerts

  • Click the View All My Alert Subscriptions on the Update Alerts Subscription page.

  • Click the View All My Alert Subscriptions on the Add Alert Subscription page.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Maintaining Your Alert Subscriptions Page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

 My Alerts page

Use the My Alerts page to view and maintain all of your alert subscriptions. You can subscribe to alerts for:

  • Discussion forums.

  • Discussion forum topics.

  • Collaborative workspace discussions.

  • Collaborative workspace discussion topics.

  • Community calendars.

  • Collaborative workspace calendars.

Field or Control

Description

Display Subscriptions for

Select a scope:

  • All — To display all your calendar and discussion forum subscriptions.

  • Community Calendars— To display all your calendar subscriptions.

  • Discussion Forum— To display all your discussion forum subscriptions.

Title

Click a title to open that item in a new window.

Edit

Click the Edit button to access the Update Alerts Subscription page to edit that alert subscription.

Delete

Click the Delete button to delete the alert subscription. You are prompted to confirm the deletion.

Delete All Subscriptions

Click to delete all alert subscriptions. You are prompted to confirm the deletions.

Edit

Click the Edit link to access the General Profile Information page, on which you can enter the email address at which you want to receive email alerts.

Email Address

Displays the email address to which the email alerts are being sent. This email address is defined on the General Profile Information page.

Email Format

Select the format in which email alerts should be sent to you:

  • Text Only — Select for text-based email alerts.

    Note: The contents of the email will use any text header and footer definitions defined by the portal administrator on the Define Alerts Email page.

  • HTML — Select for HTML-based email alerts.

    Note: For this option to be available, the Allow HTML Email option must be selected by the portal administrator on the Define Alerts Email page. The contents of the email will use any HTML header and footer definitions defined by the portal administrator on the Define Alerts Email page.

Content

Select one of the following:

  • Links Only — Select to indicate that the email should contain only links to the items in the alert.

  • Links with Summaries — Select to indicate that the email should contain links to and summaries about the items in the alert.

Include Overview/Outline

Select to have email alerts sent with an overview at the beginning of the email. The overview contains an outline of the email contents.

Use the General Profile Information page (USER_SELF_SERVICE) to maintain your system profile including the email address used for alert subscriptions.

Navigation:

  • Click the Edit link on the My Alerts page.

  • My System Profile

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the General Profile Information page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

 General Profile Information page

Use the General Profile Information page to maintain your system profile including the email address used for alert subscriptions.

Field or Control

Description

Primary Email Account

Select to identify the email account for alert subscriptions.

Email Type

Select the type for this email address.

Email Address

Enter your complete email address.

The other fields on this page are documented in PeopleTools PeopleBooks.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Applications User's Guide, “Setting User Preferences,” Setting User Personalizations, Setting Up Your System Profile.