Alerts and reminders

The Virto Alerts & Reminders App supports creating alerts and reminders to keep your team informed of all changes and upcoming events. Alerts are slightly different from reminders.

Alerts#

Alerts are email notifications that need a trigger to be sent. Since all alerts are related to a SharePoint list, the trigger may be one of the following:

• Someone adds a new item to the list.
• Someone modifies the existing item(s).
• Someone deletes an item from the list.

You also have the option to send an alert for all the above changes.

Example

You have a SharePoint list with banners. Designers add banners for every new promotion campaign, and you need to inform a content manager when a new banner is added. To automate this process, you create an alert of the “New items are added” change type and choose the content manager as a recipient.

Reminders#

Reminders inform recipients about any upcoming events. You don’t need a trigger, but you need to define when to send a reminder.

Example#

You have a list of subscriptions for the software products your team uses. Every subscription has an expiration date. You can inform yourself about expiring subscriptions to plan their renewals by creating a reminder sent three days before the expiration date.