A very common requirement is to send emails in SharePoint when List items change / new item is created. One easy way is to create alerts. However, these alerts have their limitations, you cannot define a trigger condition which relates to a specific condition for a column/field to send alerts. OOB alerts are limited to the below:
Alerts in Sharepoint 2010 can be easily configured, but this has its own limitations for tigger based emails.
A simple list for the purposes of example is listed below: You could add a field here which will be the trigger condition and send an email based on that!
Alerts in Sharepoint 2010 can be easily configured, but this has its own limitations for tigger based emails.
A simple list for the purposes of example is listed below: You could add a field here which will be the trigger condition and send an email based on that!
The SP designer workflow can be as simple as the below
This will ensure that the email is sent to the user specified and is cleared out once the email is sent. A list of all the users to whom the email was send can be tracked down by the Version history turned on for the List.
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