Alerts - Message Center

Access this form using >Message Center.

Use this form to view all of the alerts, assigned to the current user accessing the system. Select the Dismiss check box for the alerts that you have read and click the Update button to remove them from the Message Center. To view all previously dismissed alerts assigned to you, change the filter from Status = "Open" to "Dismiss" and click the Display Records button to refresh the table. The form defaults to only show alerts with an Open status.

The alert image is based on the Importance Status assigned to the Alert by the Administrator when it was set up using the Organization>Set Up Alerts form. The color of the image represents the highest ranked importance status of the alerts and the number gives the count of open notifications. The number indicates how many open alerts are assigned to you and have not been dismissed. To dismiss a notice, check the box next to the notice and click the Update button. The number will reduce once you have dismissed the notice.

If the current user accessing the system does not have any alert notifications, the system will display .

If one alert is ranked higher in importance than another, the highest importance color displays. The number represents the number of open with at least one of the notifications being the importance indicated.

Image	Importance
	No Alert Notifications
	High
	Medium
	Low

 

Filters: The filter is for display purposes only; it simply allows you to limit which items are displayed in the Available Items table.

• Available Filter, Selected Filter: Select an item in the Available Filter column, and click the Mover ( > ) to move it to the Selected Filter column. Once an item is in the Selected Filter column, set up its filtering criteria. Then, the table is limited to the data that falls within the designated filter criteria.
• Compares To: Select an operator from the drop-down list. The operator compares the value in the Selected Filter column with the values in Criteria 1 and Criteria 2 to determine which items are displayed in the Available Items table.
• Criteria 1: Enter a value to compare with the item in the Selected Filter column. When using Like or Not Like, you can use "%" to represent any number of characters.
• Criteria 2: Enter a value for the end of a range if the Compares To column contains the Between or Not Between operators.

Alerts Table: The system displays the applicable columns for the preceding form. Select how many items per page to display using the Records per Page drop-down list. You can view items in the table in increments of 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, or 1000. The default value for the Records per Page drop-down list was selected using the Options>Customize Workstation Settings>Preferences tab.

• Dismiss: Check this box to select the alert message. To dismiss the selected messages, click the Update button.

Records are initially sorted on the first data column in ascending order. However, records can be sorted based on any column by clicking on the column heading. The column on which items are sorted has (ascending order) or (descending order) in the column heading.