Creating a User Alert

Creating user alerts monitors the user's history for any inactivity in DataSource. Once the user alert is triggered, you are notified by email, and the alert appears in the Notifications Dashboard and saved in the alert history.

 To create an activity alert, click Account from the Navigation bar and select the Alerts tab. By default, the My Alerts tab in the User Alerts panel will be displayed.

1. Click Add User Alert. The Create User Alert screen appears in the User Alerts panel.
   
   

2. The Panel will populate with a search form.
   
   
   

3. From the Level Structure panel, select the desired site level/sites you want to use.
   
   
   
   
   The site level appears in the Level(s) field in the User Search panel. To remove a site level, select the site and click Remove. To remove all site levels in the Level(s) field, click Remove All.
   
   

4. From the User Search panel, enter the desired search criteria and click Search. The search results are displayed in the User Search panel. For more information on how to use the User Search panel, see Using the User Search Panel.
   
   

5. Run Search
   
   
   

6. Click the desired User ID from the User ID column. The selected user(s) appear in the User(s): field in the Create User Alert screen.
   
   
   

7. Select the value (number of inactive days) you want for the alert from the Inactivity span (days) drop-down list.
   

8. Select the value (number of days for a trigger alert to take place) in the Number of days ... Triggered Alert Notification drop-down list.
   

9. Select the time (hour) to send a triggered alert from the Sent Alert To drop-down list.
   

10. Enter a user alert name in the Alert Name field.
    

11. Click Submit. The user alert appears in the My Alerts tab.
    
    

The Alert created successfully message appears in the My Alerts tab

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