Copying Alerts for use in Third Party Applications

Information held within an alert can be copied and exported (as a Paste command) into a third party application, such as Microsoft^® Notepad.

To copy alert information:

Do one of the following: 

• Select an alert and click Copy from the Enterprise Console | Home menu ribbon.
• Select an alert and right-click to display a pop-up menu. Select Copy followed by the option to be performed.

There are three options that can be used for copying alert information.

Copy Alert Detail

This option copies the complete detail of the alert message.

To copy the alert detail:

1. Select the required alert. Multiple alerts can be selected.
2. Click Copy and select Detail from the drop-down menu.

Copy Alert Summary

This option copies just the following items of the alert:

• Date/Time
• Device
• Inquiry
• Product
• Source
• Text
• Type

To copy the alert summary:

1. Select the required alert. Multiple alerts can be selected.
2. Click Copy and select Summary from the drop-down menu.

Copy Alert XML

This option copies the same alert detail as in the Copy Detail function but in XML format.

To copy the alert detail in XML format: 

1. Select the required alert. Multiple alerts can be selected.
2. Click Copy and select XML from the drop-down menu.

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