From the Home Page or the Alert Page:
Look at short videos showing the New Alert Manager live:
For updates on what has been newly added, refer to the page Full Release Notes also reachable within the Alert Manager itself. (What's New link on the top right corner of any page in the New Alerts Manager.)
In the Alerts Manager Home Page Alerts are listed as Active, Inactive and Deleted.
Alerts can be deleted and reactivated, can be edited in bulk and can be searched via the Search filters.
Filtering the Alert Lists
In the alerts lists, you can now filter by the following elements:
Bulk Actions for email recipients
You can add and remove recipient email addresses in multiple alerts at once.Each alert now has a checkbox to the left of its name. Check the boxes of the alerts you wish to edit, and press 'Bulk Actions'
A side panel will appear allowing you to make bulk update actions. Today we allow adding and removing additional recipients.
Press ‘Apply Updates’ and observe the progress in the updates bar and in the checkbox column:
The progress bar will keep you up to date while you go on to other work!
The New Alerts Manager can be reached easily from any page in ProQuest Dialog
or from the Legacy Alerts Manager in My Research:
From the New Alerts Manager you can easily return to searching on ProQuest Dialog or to My Research:
Alert Creation/Edit page. Strategies can be modified, more sets created in the middle or at the end of the strategy. The selection of Databases can also be changed here.
In the Alert Details section all the other Alert metadata can be edited: Name, recipient(s), frequency, record format, etc.
With Save as new an Alert can be cloned with modifications and a new alert created.
Search Result counts
Get results counts for the sets within your alert search strategy:
Edit Databases
To edit databases in your existing alert, simply open the alert, click on 'Choose Databases', and select the databases relevant to your strategy:
You can also search for databases by name:
The Audit History records any changes occurred to the Alerts from creation. Available only for alerts created in the New Alerts Manager from October 11, 2018.
Reach the Audit History from the Active Alerts List in the Homepage:
Download the audit History from the Alert page:
The log file is an Excel file:
You can now re-send any completed alert delivery to the original list of recipients or to any new recipients you choose
Access the Delivery History from the Alerts list in the Home page
or from the single Alert editor page
Click on the envelope icon next to the delivery you want to resend.
A Resend Alert panel opens.
Where an additional recipient can be added, and/or the existing one deleted.
When completed, click on the Resend button.