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Step 1: Getting started with Alerts

How to configure and use the Alerts app for SharePoint Online by Accelerator 365

The Alerts app from Accelerator 365 displays important notifications to your users. Display alerts in a web part on any part of your SharePoint page or prominently inject an alert above the navigation across entire SharePoint sites.

There are three steps in this configuration guide for the Alerts app.

In this first step, we’ll walk through the how you configure the app for the first time.

Recommended setup considerations

The Alerts app stores its data in SharePoint lists. This includes data such as the alerts that have been created, in addition to the users that have dismissed a particular alert (see the Technical details page for further information). These lists, referred to as the "data source", can be created via the web part property pane and do not require manual setup.

We recommend creating the data source on the same site as where the app will be displayed if possible. In some rare scenarios, you may wish to create a single data source and display it on multiple pages, across multiple sites.

Note: only users in the Site Owners group can create a data source.

Note: it is only possible to create one data source per site.

Configuring the app for the first time

The Alerts package contains two web parts - Alerts Directory and Alerts. First, you will need to configure the Alerts Directory.

  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 Directory web part to your page.
  3. Select the Edit web part button located on the web part toolbar to open the properties pane.
  4. Select create data source from the first section in the property pane.

    Note: you will first need to select a site for the data to live. This could be any site but if you choose to select a site different from the current site please ensure that potential users have read access.

  5. You can optionally enable audience targeting to promote alerts to specific audiences across your site.

➡️ Next - Step 2: Create an alert