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title: "Step 3: Display an alert (Alerts)"
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# Step 3: Display an alert (Alerts)
## Once you've created an alert, you'll next want to explore the options to display it.
There are 3 options to choose from when displaying an alert:
1. [In a web part](https://support.accelerator365.com/en/alerts-display-an-alert#alerts-web-part)
2. [In the Viva Connections Dashboard](https://support.accelerator365.com/en/alerts-display-an-alert#alerts-dashboard-card)
3. [Across your site](https://support.accelerator365.com/en/alerts-display-an-alert#alerts-extension)
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#### 1. In a web part
1. If you are not already in edit mode on your page, select **Edit** on the top right of the page.
2. **Add the Alerts** web part to your page.
3. Click on the **Configure **button on the web part. The web part properties pane will appear.
4. Connect to the **data source site** you created in the Alerts Directory web part.
5. An optional setting in the web part properties pane allows you to **hide the web part if there are no alerts** to display. Enable or disable this option based on your preference.
6. **Publish** the page for users to view your alert.
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#### 2. In the Viva Connections Dashboard
**Note:** this option requires you to have set up the dashboard experience for Microsoft Viva Connections. Further details can be found [here](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/create-dashboard#how-to-edit-the-dashboard-from-sharepoint-when-you-have-a-home-site).
1. Navigate to your **Viva Connections Dashboard page** and select **Edit** on the top right of the page.
2. **Add the Alerts** card to your page.
3. Select the **Edit card** button located on the card toolbar to open the properties pane.
4. In the properties pane, you can:
1. Choose from the medium and large **card size**
2. Enter a **title** for the card
3. Connect to the **data source site** you created in the Alerts Directory web part.
4. Select the **audiences to target** your card to.
**Note:** this audience targeting applies to the card. If you wish to audience target specific alerts, this should be done in the Alerts Directory web part.
5. **Publish** the dashboard page for users to view your alert via the Dashboard for Viva Connections web part.
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#### 3. Across your site
**Note:** only a user with the SharePoint Administrator role can set up this type of alert due to properties that need to be set in SharePoint.
1. First, ensure **custom scripts are temporarily enabled on your App Catalog site** to set the Alerts extension. Full instructions are available on [this page](https://support.accelerator365.com/en/technical/how-to-enable-custom-scripts?hsLang=en).
2. Click the **Settings** icon on the SharePoint suite bar and navigate to **Site contents**.
3. In Site contents, a configuration panel for the Alerts extension will appear at the foot of the page. Click on **Configure** button
4. A property pane will appear, allowing you to connect the Alerts extension to your Alerts Directory to display alerts across SharePoint sites.
You will need to insert a JSON string in the pre-defined format below, replacing the **bold items** with the SharePoint domain and the site where your Alerts source is located.
**JSON format**
```
{ "default":{ "sourceSiteUrl":"https://yourdomain.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursite" }, "overrides":[ { "sites":[] } ]}
```
5. Your JSON will be validated to ensure it is correctly formatted. Click on the **Save** button to apply the SharePoint properties for Alerts.
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#### ⬅️ Back - [Step 2: Create an alert](https://support.accelerator365.com/en/alerts-create-an-alert?hsLang=en)
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#### **Advanced configuration**
For editors seeking to **display different alerts on their sites**, check out our guide on [How to set up multiple alerts in your tenant](https://support.accelerator365.com/en/alerts-overrides?hsLang=en).
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