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Copper Contributor

Oct 23, 2018

How to Send an Email when added a News Post in SharePoint Online site

How do you Send an Email to notify a user whenever a new News Post is created in SharePoint Online site? Please help on how to do this. What are the ways.

Iron Contributor

Oct 23, 2018

Hi John Edward Paredes there are a number of ways that you could tackle this. You could create a Flow which has a trigger on the Site Pages library to send an email to a user/set of users to inform them that some activity has taken place.

Alternatively, you could use the out-of-the-box Alerts mechanism as displayed in the attached screenshot. This way you can specify whether the alerts are sent out immediately, daily summary or weekly summary.

pdang
Copper Contributor
Mar 12, 2019
Matt Weston Hi Matt, The OOTB solution you provided is not helping. When I try to set an alert on News page, then I get alerted whenever changes are on News.aspx and it is published but not when there is any news post added. Am I missing something? How can I set an alert for myself/other users to get alerted on the News post releases? TIA.
- Matt Weston
  Iron Contributor
  Mar 12, 2019
  Hi pdang , if you're looking for alerts when only when a news item is published then you're better off working with Microsoft Flow to achieve this. The OOTB method will send alerts when an item is added to the library regardless of whether it is published or not.
  
  I'll post an example Flow later today just in case you need it.
  - Mbryant705
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 08, 2019
    Hi Matt,
    
    Can you post some Pointers on how to do this please?
    
    Thanks
    
    Martin
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Oct 28, 2018
Flow would be my recommended way of solving this