In order to make an action happen when an alert is sent, you must configure a scenario. The following image shows what the scenario editor would look like if you were configuring it to notify the Apps community (according to each user’s specified preferences) whenever a new document is created using the document exchange gear.
The “send alert” action in a scenario gives you several options for where to send the alert: to the community which was the source of the event, to all users in a specific community, organization, or role, or to specific users.
Performing this action in the Scenarios module will send a message that is received by a global nucleus component, AlertManager, which is responsible for creating Web and e-mail alert notifications based on the channels configured for the target members.
For more information on the scenarios, refer to the Personalization Programming Guide and the Personalization Guide for Business Users.
