Watch rules are defined in Report Viewer by report users so that they can monitor events of interest to them in saved reports. Creating watch rules does not require access to Event Studio.
Note: Users can view and edit watch rules in a single location from the My Watch Items area in Reporting Center.
Watch rules are based on event conditions that are evaluated when the report is saved, not when the report runs interactively. When the event condition is satisfied, the report user is alerted by email or news item.
The event conditions are created using a numeric measure and can be specified only in saved HTML reports. You can define an unlimited number of conditions for a report. The locale for the conditional report output is the same as the locale for the report that contains the event condition.
Before a user can create watch rules and receive alerts, the report owner must enable watch rules for the report.
To create watch rules, the report user must have read and traverse permissions to the report output.
