Predefined Alert Templates
Published: May 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation alert templates define the content and appearance of alerts. Templates for e-mail alerts are defined in AlertTemplates.xml and templates for SMS alerts are defined in AlertTemplates_SMS.xml. Both files are located in the %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\Template\XML folder. A template specifies the content and formatting of a message for each of several types of events, such as the item changed event or item deleted event.
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Do not modify AlertTemplates.xml or AlertTemplates_SMS.xml. To make changes, make a copy of one or both files, edit the copy, and then make one or two calls of the stsadm -o updatealerttemplates command to override the original templates with your changes. Your changes are stored in the SharePoint Foundation configuration database. For details, see Alerts Overview and AlertTemplates Schema. |
SharePoint Foundation ships with the e-mail templates shown in Table 1 defined in AlertTemplates.xml. An identical list of SMS templates is defined in AlertTemplates_SMS.xml. The names of the SMS templates are the same as their e-mail counterparts, except that “Sms” is inserted between the “SP” and the “Alert”. For example, SPSmsAlertTemplateType.GenericList is the SMS counterpart to the e-mail template SPAlertTemplateType.GenericList.
A particular alert template is defined with an AlertTemplate element. The SMS templates are identical to the e-mail templates in their AlertTemplate markup except for the child Format element.
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If you make a change to a given SPAlertTemplateType.* template outside of the Format element, you must make the same change to the corresponding SPSmsAlertTemplateType.* template. |
The primary way that the Format element in an SPSmsAlertTemplateType.* template differs from the Format element in the corresponding SPAlertTemplateType.* template is that the style and rendering information is not included in the SMS template because SMS messages are sent as unformatted text. Moreover, SMS messages do not have a subject line and they have only a message body with no message header or message footer.
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SPAlertTemplateType.GenericList |
The first alert template in AlertTemplates.xml. GenericList is used unless there is a match to one of other list types. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.DocumentLibrary |
Notification of changes in document libraries. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.WebPageLibrary |
Notification of changes in Web page libraries. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.Survey |
Notification of changes in surveys. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.Links |
Notification of changes in links. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.Announcements |
Notification of changes in announcements. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.Contacts |
Notification of changes in contacts. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.Events |
Notification of changes in events. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.Tasks |
Notification of changes in tasks. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.DiscussionBoard |
Notification of changes in discussion boards. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.PictureLibrary |
Notification of changes in picture libraries. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.XMLForm |
Notification of changes in XML form. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.DataConnectionLibrary |
Notification of changes in data connection libraries. |
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SPAlertTemplateType.AssignedtoNotification |
Assigned to task list and issue list notifications. |
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/07/customizing-alert-notifications-and-alert-templates-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx
- 10/26/2011
- Tim Bailen
