Alerts Gear

Module name: alert

The Alerts Gear displays alert notifications generated by events occurring within the portal. For example, the Alerts Gear might notify a visitor that a new document has been added to the Document Exchange Gear.

Instance Configuration

To configure an instance of the Alerts Gear:

  1. Enter the Community Administration and click the configure link for the Alert Gear instance.

  2. In the configuration basics page, enter a gear name and description. Select sharing and Make visible to options and click Done.

  3. Click the additional configurations link. Set the display count parameter for this gear instance to specify how many alerts display in the shared view of the gear.

  4. Click the access parameters link. Specify which alerts are to be displayed, based on where they were targeted by the Send Alert Scenario action. You can enable or disable the following alert categories:

    aggregated community alerts
    community alerts
    role alerts
    organization alerts
    user alerts

  5. Click Update.

Configuring the Alerts Gear Repository Module in ACC

You can use the ACC to control data removal for the Alerts Gear repository. Over time, as the actions of users on your portal generate more and more alerts, the amount of data storage required by alerts increases. If you do not configure data removal settings, you can potentially exceed your data storage capacity. For more information on using the ACC, refer to the ATG Personalization Guide for Business Users.

To configure the Alerts Gear repository for data removal:

  1. Open the ATG Control Center.

  2. Select Pages and Components, followed by Components by Path.

  3. Open the /atg/portal/alert/AlertRepositoryAdmin component.

  4. In the AlertRepositoryAdmin component, set the properties for data removal.

    The properties and their options are listed in the table below.

  5. Once you have set the data removal properties, click Start.

    The component starts, using the settings you have specified.

    AlertRepositoryAdmin

    Description

    expirationDate

    Specifies the date after which data is outdated and ready to be deleted.

    expirationDays

    Specifies the number of days after which data is outdated and ready to be deleted. Use this property if you are going to run the removal process as a recurring event.

    schedule

    Specifies the interval at which the removal process runs. The default setting for this property is one hour.

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