About alerts

Alerts enable you to be notified by e-mail of any changes made to the content of this Web site. You can create alerts for lists and libraries, as well as for individual items and any files in them. When you create an alert for a list or library, you can specify the kinds of changes that you want to track. For example, you can have the server alert you when an item or file is added, modified, or deleted. Alerts for files and list items notify you when the file or item is updated or deleted. For documents in libraries and photo libraries, you can be notified when new images have been added, deleted, or edited.

You can specify how frequently you want to receive alerts. You can have them appear immediately or as daily or weekly summaries. When you no longer need to follow changes for the list, library, item, or file, you can delete your alerts at any time.

Important   You will need an account on this system and a valid email address to receive alerts.  Also, if, after having created alerts, your user account removed from the system, you must tell the Administrator to also remove any alerts you set up; otherwise you will continue to receive alerts afterward.

  Request an account and password by Emailing me at angelom@comcast.net  

Here is a More detailed explanation with visual aids.

Examine the screen shot below. 
This page is presented by selecting the "Documents and List" menu from the Home Page.  Look down the list and just
below the Document Libraries is the list of Photo Libraries in this WEB site.  Selecting a library title, opens the library at it's top level page.

Now in the next illustration, I clicked on the Picture Library titled "Carle Angelo".
Notice the menu options at the left side now include the option "Alert Me". 
This option is available only when viewing a page or item that alerts can be created for. 

Notice in the above screen shot, there is a single image and two folders, (called sub-folders or sub-directories).  Just as with all computer file systems, files (images) are stored in folders (directories) and directories have a  hierarchy or structure that is similar to an inverted tree, where directories can branch downward many levels deep.

The next image is showing the folder (or sub-directory) structure of the "Carle Angelo" library.

So if you patiently read this far along, you must be asking yourself just why I'm explaining all this technical babble when all you want to do is look at pretty pictures.  Well, here's why.  If you create an Alert in the October Folder, you won't be notified when a new image is added to the "FirstBirthday" folder; however if you create an alert at the top, or highest level directory, that being "Carle Angelo", you will receive alerts when files are added or removed in that folder and all sub folders below it, and in any new folders created in the future.