Disable and Enable Alerts

This applies to: Visual Data Discovery

You can easily enable or disable an alert temporarily using the Data Discovery Alerts work area.

To disable alerts, you must be logged in as a user belonging to a group with the privilege Administer Alerts or Create Alerts.

  • Users with the privilege Administer Alerts and DATA ACCESS to the underlying data sources can manage all aspects of alerts associated with a dashboard.
  • Users with the privilege Create Alerts can only manage the alerts they created for a dashboard.

Disable an Alert

  1. Open a dashboard that contains one or more visuals that support alerts.

  2. Select Manage Alerts from the dashboard. The Alerts work area opens, listing existing alerts for this dashboard.

    Create, enable, disable, edit, or delete alerts for a dashboard

  3. Slide the Enabled toggle to the left for an alert to grey the toggle out, disabling the alert.

  4. Symphony automatically updates the alert definition, and updates the Last Modified field with the current date and time.

    No alerts are run or sent while the alert is disabled.

Enable an Alert

  1. Open a dashboard that contains one or more visuals that support alerts.

  2. Select Manage Alerts from the dashboard. The Alerts work area opens, listing existing alerts for this dashboard.

    Create, enable, disable, edit, or delete alerts for a dashboard

  3. Slide the Enabled toggle to the right for an alert to enable the alert.

  4. Symphony automatically updates the alert definition, and updates the Last Modified field with the current date and time.

    Alerts will now run and be sent when threshold conditions are met.