Saving a search as an alert and being notified when the results change
Imagine you are working on an important project. You need to know when anyone posts some content relating to your project on SharePoint. There is no need to continually visit your SharePoint site to search for new items. Instead you can set an alert on your search results and have SharePoint automatically notify you when new items are added.
Getting ready
This recipe works for:
SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
Office 365 (SharePoint Online)
You will need the Read permission level to create a search alert in SharePoint.
Your administrator will need to have configured e-mail or SMS services on SharePoint to allow you to receive the alerts.
How to do it...
Perform a simple or advanced search as explained in the recipes earlier in this chapter.
Click on the Alert me icon in the top-right corner of the search result's screen.
Set the properties that you require for the alert.
Click on the OK button to...
