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Setting Up Alerts

Alerts (formerly called subscriptions in an earlier version of the software) are used when you want to be notified when content on the SharePoint site changes. Alerts are sent through e-mail. To set up an alert, follow these steps:

1. Locate the content for which you want to configure the alert. This can be virtually anything on the SharePoint site.

2. Click an item in a library. A menu appears, as shown in Figure 25-1. Select Alert Me to be alerted when that item is changed.

   

   Figure 25-1. Select Alert Me to get an e-mail alert when a specific item has been changed.

3. The New Alert page, shown in Figure 25-2, displays the e-mail address to ...