How to: Add or Edit Alerts
You can create alerts for yourself, or for other people, that send an e-mail when events that you specify occur. You receive alerts in e-mail and can obtain additional information about the alert by clicking links in the alert.
Required Permissions
To perform these procedures, you must be a member of the Readers group or have the View project-level information permission set to Allow. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.
To add alerts
With a team project node selected, on the Team menu, click Project Alerts.
Select the check box next to the alerts you want.
For each alert, in the Send to column, add the e-mail addresses of the team members who should receive the alert. You can use a distribution list to simplify managing recipients when team members are added or removed.
For each alert, in the Format column, select HTML or Plain text for the type of e-mail message to be sent.
Click OK to save your alerts for the selected project.
To edit alerts
With a team project node selected, on the Team menu, click Project Alerts.
For each type of alert, you can change the following:
Select or clear the check box to turn the alert on or off.
In the Recipients column, type the e-mail addresses of the people you want to receive each type of alert.
In the Format column, select the format of the e-mail messages for each type of alert.
Click OK to save your changes.
See Also
Tasks
How to: Remove Alerts
How to: View Alerts
Walkthrough: Tracking Work Items