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Alerts step by step walkthrough Author: Jakub jakubadamek@ecn.cz

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THIS ITEM IS COMPLETELY DEPRECATED. A COMPLETELY NEW ALERTS DESIGN IS DESCRIBED IN THE NEW DOCUMENTATION. ALSO SEE READER MANAGEMENT DOCUMENTION AND DEMOS FOR USEFUL ALERTS DEMOS AND TUTORIALS

This walkthrough does not describe all details, you must look into the FAQ item AA Alerts for them.

To set up Alerts on your computer, first ask some Superadmin to set up default Collections and cron:

1. Jump to Alerts / Collections
2. There should be the special collections with Description __default__ and __subscription__. If you don't have them, something was wrong with sql_update.php3. You should create them in Admin panel, but you must change the "showme" field value to 0 in the database.
3. Set the email headers for the special collections
4. Set up cron on your server
5. Change the values in the table "cron" in the database if you don't like the defaults. There should be 3 rows working with misc/alerts/alerts.php3, sending the daily, weekly and monthly digest. These are created by sql_update.php3.

Now any Slice Admin may work with Alerts:

1. Switch to the slice the items of which you want to send
2. Create a view of type Alerts Digest, fill in a plausible design
3. At the top of the view design page fill some Filter Description and if you want to sent only some of the new slice items, fill the conds[] field with search form-like conds[] and sort[]
4. Jump to Alerts / Collections
5. Create a new Collection, fill at least the Description
6. After clicking on Insert, a list of Filters and Users will appear
7. Add Filters to the Collection

Hurrah, we have a new collection!

Now how to offer it to users? On any of your web pages, create a subscription form. See AA Alerts for details. If you want to see a list of users subscribed to your collection, click on Edit in Alerts / Collections.

Last Edit: Aug 17 2011

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