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Business Productivity Alerts Alert Plus by Bamboo Solutions
 

Alert Plus by Bamboo Solutions Hot

 
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Web Part
Member Discounts
Developer Bamboo Solutions
Supports SharePoint 2010MOSS 2007WSS v3SPS 2003
Price, US $ 1,095.00
Licensing Per Server
Free Trial Yes
Website http://store.bamboosolutions.com

Alert Plus Web Part lets you save time, minimize inbox traffic and keep projects on track by automatically sending customized, conditional email alerts and reminders to users or a group of users.

Some of the features Alert Plus offers:

  • Centralized Alerts Management: Manage all Bamboo Alert Plus alerts in a single Web Part.
  • Comprehensive Set of Triggers: Trigger alerts when item exists, created, modified, deleted, or when a column changes.
  • Limit Alterable Items with Filters: Filter the items to alert on based on an existing List View or set of conditions.
  • Multiple Routing Methods: Send notification to distribution lists, including those not members of SharePoint sites.
  • Customizable Rich Text E-mails: Include Columns From the Alert Item; Display Both Past & New Column Values; Provide Professional Appearance With Embedded Images.
  • Keep Inboxes Clutter Free: Merge multiple notifications into a single summary alert.
  • No Developer Coding Required: Build effective alerts through a user friendly interface within SharePoint.

Receive alerts based on conditions such as:

  • Tasks coming due or overdue.
  • Document status changes from Pending to Approved.
  • Issues status is marked as Active and due date is 1 day away.
  • Publishing of Wiki Pages.

Build effective e-mail alert notifications:

 

  • Create eye-catching, informative alerts using a rich multi-line control.
  • Include only columns that reinforce the subject of the alert.
  • Choose to display previous and/or new column values.
  • Assemble different alert templates for different list actions, such as when an item is Created vs. Modified.

Stop limiting your users to default SharePoint self-subscription alerting and send alerts to:

 

  • A distribution list such as a SharePoint Contact list.
  • The user set in the Assigned To column of a Task.
  • To the project manager defined in the associated project details list.
  • Any user (member of SharePoint or not), as long as the user has an e-mail address, an alert can be sent.

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User reviews

Average user rating from: 4 user(s)

 

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1.3
 
 

This product is great when it works.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
It’s impossible to get this product to work consistently. The custom timer never worked for us. The support team even with the so called “premium support” is useless.

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Version Reviewed 3.0
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Reviewed by Nathan Kuben
March 22, 2011
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Inconsistent implementation

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The alerts worked for one site, but refuse to work on other sites in the site collections. Sometimes the alerts event does not get raised, sometimes it sends the alerts but it sends the email message designed on another site. Alert schedules are sometimes Eastern time, sometimes GMT. The Bamboo Alert Plus Windows Service sometimes fails and no alerts go out until they are restarted. At one point, the services would no longer restart and required us to restart the server. Overall, it worked well for our demo on one site but once we deployed all alerts on all sites for the site collection, things went from good to very bad.

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Pros Lots of options for configuring the alerts, setting up the Mailing list, flexible email message properties and replacable parameters and can redirect links in emails to another SharePoint Zone or you can redirect the {itemlink} to a custom page
Cons Inconsistent implementation. Finicky Windows Services. Messy metadata.
Version Reviewed Latest version September 2009
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Reviewed by Daniel Sanscartier
October 13, 2009
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We have this

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Getting support from Bamboo is next to impossible. The alerts can work reliably but they must be set up just perfectly which can take a lot of time. We have it working on one list but can't for the life of us get it to work on another list in the site collection. The times are all wrong, etc. Support was, of course, no help with that either.

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Pros Lots of options
Cons Not always reliable and terrible support.
Version Reviewed 2.5
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Reviewed by brjones
August 13, 2009
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Powerful Configuration, but was Inconsistent

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
We implemented this to support a SharePoint application that was built before we started using the workflow capabilities. It was easy to setup, and we found the customization very powerful, but it frequently stopped working and the logs even at full sensitivity couldn't tell us why all of the changes/events were being ignored.

Even though we purchased support, we received very little help and no definitive fix. We eventually stopped using it since the users couldn't depend on it.

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Pros Very flexible, complete customization on what to send, who to send it to, and when.
Cons This runs as a service on the server. For whatever reason, it was broken more than it worked. Support was not helpful.
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Reviewed by Next_Connect
April 05, 2009
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