You can now export or import an alert list.

Exporting Alerts

You can export the list of alerts you have access to.

To do so, start by accessing Indaba Alerting from the Io-base portal.

Then, click on the "Alerts List" menu. You will be directed to the page displaying all the alerts you have access to.

At the top-right of the page, click on the Excel export button.

A pop-up will appear.

You can modify the file name for the export if desired. Then click Save.

An Excel file containing the list of alerts will be downloaded :

Importing Alerts

You can import new alerts from an Excel file.

To do so, open the Excel file containing the exported alerts.

To add a new alert, go to an empty row and enter the required information for each column.

IMPORTANT : You must leave the first column, "Id", empty.

You need to enter the following :

Alert Type : enter "default" for regular alerts and "OnCall" for on-call alerts.
Alert Name
Alert Description (optional)
Alert Triggering Equation
Email : enter TRUE if you want to be notified by email, otherwise enter FALSE.
SMS : enter TRUE if you want to be notified by SMS, otherwise enter FALSE.
Delay : represents the minimum delay between two notifications, in seconds.
Groups : access groups associated with the alert.
Email Addresses : additional email addresses to be notified when the alert is triggered.

Note : If you wish to specify multiple groups or additional email addresses, you need to separate them with a semicolon ";".

If you choose to be notified by email, you can configure a link to be included in the notification email. The following columns are for this feature:

Link Text : text for the link to include in the email.
Start Date Offset : offset between the alert trigger and the period shown for links to IndaBoard or IndabaExplorer.
End Date Offset : offset between the alert trigger and the period shown for links to IndaBoard or IndabaExplorer.
Link : the link to include in the email.

Example of a valid import :

Once the alert information is entered, save your file.

Go back to the alert list screen, then click on Import Excel at the top-right of your screen :

Next, click on Select a file.

Then select the Excel file to import.

The alerts are then imported and added to your list.