Configuring data alerts
In addition to subscriptions, SharePoint can also alert you when specific conditions occur within the data of your report. For example, if monthly revenue drops a set value you wish to be alerted. Alerts allow you to know when something significant with your data has occurred.
Getting ready
There's not much to do, other than have a report in your document library, whose data source has been configured for unattended execution as you saw in the previous recipe.
How to do it...
- Navigate to the folder containing the report.
- Execute the report by clicking on its name.
- In the upper left corner is a tiny menu, Actions. Click it:
Figure 9.30
- In the menu, select New Data Alert.
- In the pane on the right, click Add rule....
- Select a field to set a rule on. In this example, we are going to use Payment_Days.
- Click on the word is. Select is greater than from the popup menu.
- Move to the box to the right of is greater than. Enter the value to trigger the alert on. In this example, we...