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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster

Overview of this book

Microsoft 365 offers tools for content management, communication, process automation, and report creation. Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook maximizes workplace collaboration and productivity using SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Delve, M365 Search, Copilot, Power Platform, Viva, Planner, and Microsoft Forms. You will find thoroughly updated recipes for SharePoint Online, covering sites, lists, libraries, pages, web parts, and learn SharePoint Framework (SPFx) basics for building solutions. You will explore many Microsoft Teams recipes to prepare it to be your organization’s central collaboration hub. You will be able to unlock Power Platform potential with recipes for Power Apps to enable low-code/no-code app development and learn to automate tasks with Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop. The book teaches you data visualization with Power BI, and chatbot creation with Power Virtual Agents (Copilot Studio). Finally, you will also learn about the cutting-edge Copilot and Gen AI functionality in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. By the end, you will be equipped with skills to effectively use Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, and the Power Platform. Whether it's enhancing career prospects or improving business operations, this book is a perfect companion on your journey through the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Adding alerts

If you so desire, SharePoint can notify you by email when list or library items are added, edited, or deleted.

In this recipe, we will see how to create email alerts for SharePoint lists and libraries.

Getting ready

You will need at least Read access on the list or library for which you’d like to get alerted.

How to do it...

  1. Browse to the list for which you would like to view or change the settings.
  2. Click Alert me, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.52: Option to add an alert for a list

  1. This shows the Alert me dialog box. Here, you can specify various properties and settings for the alert to be created:
    • Alert Title: Specify a title for the alert which is descriptive of what the alert is for. The title will be shown in the subject line of the email alert that the selected users will receive.
    • Send Alerts To: Users with Full Control access to the list, such as the list owners...