Approval Alerts

To jump directly to creating an alert Create An Alert

Overview

Alerts refer to the contents of the email alerts that are sent to users that participate in the approval process. Namely, managers that need to approve jobs and the users that submitted the job informing them that a job was approved or rejected.

There are three types of alerts.

• Order Approved alert
• Order Needs Approval Alert
• Order Rejected Alert

You will see how these come into play later in this article

Create An Alert

1. Mouse over the "Create Alert" menu & choose the type of alert you wish to create. In this case we're choosing "order Approved".
   
2. The following dialog will appear.

	Name	Description
1	Alert Name	The name of the alert This name is the one that will appear when you are configuring an approval rule and you are prompted for what message to send. See Create Approval Rule for more information
2	Alert Message	The body of the alert that will be sent out here is entirely configurable by your staff. Expressions The "Fx" icon represents will allow you to enter JavaScript expression. this is useful for adding personalized touches, such as the recipients name. or what they tried to order Read "JavaScript expression" for more information. The body of the alert that will be sent out here is entirely configurable.
3	Create	Click to create a rule

Approving your Alerts

Remember to approve your alerts once you are done with them.

ONLY approved alerts are available for selection when configuring Approval rules.