alerts

List all Alerts within a SharePoint site without using the SharePoint API?

Is it possible to get a list of alerts for ALL users within a given site? After messing with the GetAlerts method in /_vti_bin/Lists.asmx, it seems it always executes in the context of the user who provided it with credentials, and will only return the Alerts for THAT user. I was hoping to get a list of EVERY alert within the site. I kn...

SharePoint Email Alerts

I'm having problem sending email alerts from a Discussion Board. I've added all the work email to the Shared Service User profiles n SharePoint Central Administration area. However, when I click on Alert Me I get the following error: The following users do not have e-mail addresses specified: User Name. Alerts have been created succes...

Hide field in SharePoint alert email

How can I hide a field in a SharePoint alert? I have a custom event list (Calendar). I have a field (of type Note - aka Multi-line text) whose XML contents I generate manually in an event receiver. All my calendar views use this field as the Title for the Month, Week, and Day views. I have a web part I include on the page that runs a...

How might I display a "legal drinking age" alert for a website?

I have a website where you're supposed to be 21 or older to buy the wine from this site. How do I put an "alert" up stating that by clicking through to the buy pages you certify that you are 21 years or older? ...

Can I send alert message to MSN messenger or Yahoo! messenger from servers?

There is a server changing a batch to add up data on the date and time, but I want to send the end states (normal end or abnormal termination) of this batch to Yahoo! Messenger or one's ID of the MSN messenger as a message, but a page and the document which I am useful for are not found. Can I send alert message to MSN messenger or Yaho...

When to use a UIAlertView vs. UIActionSheet

Are there situations where a UIAlertView is better to use than a UIActionSheet? What are the typical scenarios where you would use one over the other? I'm programming a navigation bar button to open a UIWebView in an external application, and at first I started programming a UIAlertView, then I thought that an action sheet might be bett...

Changing the Task Overdue email format in MOSS 2007 document approval workflow

How can I change the Email sent when a document in the out of the box document approval workflow is overdue. The email I get is something like Task assigned to Name here on 7/13/2009 is overdue. Due by 7/3/2009 Please approve document1 From: Someone Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 9:50 AM To complete this task: 1. Review Document. 2. ...

Alerts when navigating away from a web page

When I try to close my Google docs tab with unsaved changes, this is what I get in my browser (FF 3.5). Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page? You have unsaved changes in this document. Click Cancel now, then 'Save' to save them. Click OK now to discard them. Press OK to continue, or Cancel to sta...

Invoke an alert on an href, then continue to a new page

I have a link to a page which invokes the 'Sexy Alert Box' script to pop a message asking if users agree to Terms and Conditions with options "I Agree" and "Cancel". I've got that much going but now I need for the "I Agree" option to send them to a new page. ("Cancel" returns the user the current page.) Something to do with document...

Push Notifications in Android Platform

I am looking to write an app which received pushed alerts from a server. I found a couple of methods to do this. SMS - Intercept the incoming SMS and initiate a pull from the server Poll the server periodically Each has its own limitations. SMS- no guarantee on arrival time. Poll may drain the battery. Do you have a better suggest...

iPhone App - Generate Alert Popups when App is Closed

In creating an iPhone app, is it possible to generate a popup alert on the iphone (similar to a Push notification) when the app has been closed. A simple example would be to have an app that can set a reminder at 5:00PM January 5th, 2010. The app can be closed and the reminder will popup at that time. I don't think this is possible bu...

Web usability: alert/notification - how to attract attention?

I'm building a web application where one of the features causes users to be notified in real-time when an alert pertaining to them occurs, similar to the big orange bar in Stack Overflow. I have a few options, and I was wondering if there was a usability guideline on the best way to go about this. One option is to have a small notifica...

Iphone phone call and other system popup

Is there a way to detect if the application lose focus because a phone call or because an other system message is on top of it. When receive phone the system call applicationWillResignActive, and when other message box from the system is displayed the same function applicationWillResignActive is called. Thans ...

Can't get NSAlert to continually bounce dock icon

I seem to have the exact opposite problem than this question on stopping dock bounce. I can't get my app to continually bounce the dock icon! I too hate continually bouncing dock icons, but in this case if the user doesn't realise my app can't launch, they could potentially lose hours of time tracking data. Here's my code that I've p...

Get Status of Immediate Alert job using SharePoint API

I want to get the status of all Immediate Alerts jobs in the farm. Just like they are showed in Central Admin - Timer Job Status page. I found a way to do it querying TimerRunningJobs table but I would like to use the API instead. From the API I can get job-immediate-alerts thru class: Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplicatio...

jConfirm with this existing code [Solved]

Hi, I need help to use jConfirm with this existing code (php & Jquery & jAlert). function logout() { if (confirm("Do you really want to logout?")) window.location.href = "logout.php"; } If I just change confirm to jConfirm this not enough to make it work... Thanks for your help Lena ...

How can I use Autoit to close all javascript alerts and confirmations that may appear?

I am testing in selenium and I have a bunch of stuff that happens on page load. I found out about autoit, and I was thinking that it could handle all javascript dialog issues. I was searching around the web for some autoit script that could handle this... Other options would be helpful as well! I don't necessarily need all the code, b...

TFS email notification

When I add a bug (Work Item) in TFS, and assign it to a user, I want an email sent to that user. Also if an existing bug has the "Assigned To" changed, I want that user to get an email. Is it possible to send Alerts to users when they're assigned changed bugs in TFS 2008? ...

tfs project alerts

the 4 project alerts in TFS are good but I need some more of mine in them. The important one i want is when i create a new bug in TFS i want an email to be sent out. Is there a way i can create a new alert in the project alerts? If so how? ...

Where best to place alert/notifications on a website?

What do I mean by alert/notification? Example is an instant-messaging application, on the event when a user/friend comes online, you receive an alert that they are online - this alert is what I'm talking about. How is this done on the desktop? On desktop applications pop-up alerts/notifications appear bottom-right corner on Windows an...