Create an alert group

An alert group allows to gather alerts sharing the same parameters.

A scheduled alert group defines:

  • when and how often to check for matching documents, such as daily at 3 pm, or every Monday at noon.

  • the security source. To save a query as an alert in the Mashup Builder, the end-user must be logged in.

  • how the alert will be published, which can be either as an email, as a web service or using a custom publisher.

See Also
About Query Alerting
Publish scheduled alerts
Define timestamp offsets for incremental alerts (Optional)
  1. In the Business Console, go to Notification > Alerting.
  2. On the Alert Group List, click Add.
  3. In the Add Alert Group dialog box,
    1. For Name, type something that is descriptive for end-users such as Daily-email.
    2. For Type, select Scheduled.
  4. Select Use as default if you want this alert to be the default choice displayed to the user when clicking Save query as alert in the Mashup Builder.
  5. Enter a description, for example, daily alerts.
  6. For Result mode select:
    • New and modified documents to retrieve documents matching the query and that have been added or changed since the time the alert ran.
    • All matching documents to retrieve all matching documents regardless of timestamp.
  7. For Recurrence, click Edit and:
    • Choose to execute the alert monthly, weekly or using a Quartz scheduling .
    • Specify the execution time and the update frequency. For example, weekly at 08:30:00 on Tuesday and Friday.
  8. For Security source, enter the security source name, for example, mysecurity.
    • This is only required for saving alerts using the Mashup Builder alerting widgets. If building your own, or building a custom application, a security source is optional.

You must now specify how to publish the alert.