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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak

Overview of this book

Microsoft Office 365 provides tools for managing organizational tasks like content management, communication, report creation, and business automation processes. With this book, you'll get to grips with popular apps from Microsoft, enabling workspace collaboration and productivity using Microsoft SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. In addition to guiding you through the implementation of Microsoft 365 apps, this practical guide helps you to learn from a Microsoft consultant's extensive experience of working with the Microsoft business suite. This cookbook covers recipes for implementing SharePoint Online for various content management tasks. You'll learn how to create sites for your organization and enhance collaboration across the business and then see how you can boost productivity with apps such as Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Planner, Delve, and M365 Groups. You'll find out how to use the Power Platform to make the most of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Finally, the book focuses on the SharePoint framework, which helps you to build custom Teams and SharePoint solutions. By the end of the book, you will be ready to use Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online to enhance business productivity using a broad set of tools.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Adding alerts

    SharePoint notifies you by email when items are added, edited, or deleted in lists or libraries.

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

    Getting ready

    You will need at least Readaccess 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:

    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 that 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, see this additional...