SharePoint - Update User Alert

Declaration

<AMSHAREPOINT ACTIVITY="update_useralert" SITEURL="text" 
USER="text" ID="text" TITLE="text" 
EVENT="text (options)" FREQUENCY="text (options)" />

Description: Updates the settings and content of an existing user alert.

This activity is only supported on SharePoint 2013 Server. Before users and administrators can create, edit, delete, and view data  alerts, they must be granted  SharePoint permissions.

Practical Usage

Alerts are notifications of changes to content on a site that you receive as email messages or text messages to your mobile phone. This activity allows you to update a user alert for yourself or for other people if you are a site administrator.

Connection Parameters

Property

Type

Required

Default

Markup

Description

Site

Text

Yes

(Empty)

SITE="http:/yServer/h/mi"

The SharePoint site from which to modify a user alert. A SharePoint site is a collection of pages, site templates, lists, and libraries configured for the purpose of achieving an express goal.

User

Text

Yes

(Empty)

USER="theUser""

The user from which to modify a user alert. The user can be identified by his/her login name or email address.

User alert ID

Text

Yes

(Empty)

ID="D1F15740-4A56-4681-8C12-1DFBF346323B"

The unique identifier of the alert to modify.

Title

Text

No

(Empty)

TITLE="theAlert"

The name of the alert in which to modify.

Type

Text (options)

No

Doesn't matter

  1. TYPE="email"

  2. TYPE="SMS"

The type of alert to send. The available options are:

  • Doesn't matter - The alert type is irrelevant.

  • Email - The alert to send will be an email alert.

  • SMS - The alert to send will be an SMS alert.

Event

Text (options)

No

Doesn't matter

  1. EVENT="All"

  2. EVENT="Add"

  3. EVENT="Modify"

  4. EVENT="Delete"

  5. EVENT="Discussion"

The type of event to which the alert applies. The available options are:

  • Doesn't matter - The event type is irrelevant.

  • All - The alert applies to all events pertaining to the list or list item.

  • Add - The alert applies additions to the list or list item.

  • Modify - The alert applies to all changes made in a list or list item.  

  • Delete - The alert applies to  deletion of a list or list item.

  • Discussion - The alert applies tochanges in Web discussions.

Frequency

Text (options)

No

Doesn't matter

  1. FREQUENCY="immediate"

  2. FREQUENCY="Daily"

  3. FREQUENCY="Weekly"

T he  frequency in which the alert should be sent. The available options are:

  • Doesn't matter - The alert frequency is irrelevant.

  • Immediate - The alert is immediate. Immediate alerts are not actually immediate; they are sent after a delay that is determined by the timer interval.  

  • Daily - The alert is sent on a daily basis.

  • Weekly - The alert is sent on a weekly basis.

Description

Error Causes

On Error

Example

The sample AML code below can be copied and pasted directly into the Steps panel of the Task Builder.

Description: Update SharePoint user alert for "me@myDaomain.com. Alert ID is "D1F15740-4A56-4681-8C12-1DFBF346323B"".

<AMSHAREPOINT ACTIVITY="update_useralert" 
SITEURL="http://myServer/myFolder" 
USER="me@myDaomain.com" USERFILTER="email" 
ID="D1F15740-4A56-4681-8C12-1DFBF346323B&quot;" 
TITLE="myAlert" TYPE="email" EVENT="delete" 
FREQUENCY="daily" />