SharePoint online, new experience. I've set an alert on a document library. Now I want to remove it, but can't find anywhere to manage my alerts. It used to be a command in the ribbon. Where is it now????

Sorry, I think it's not clear what the problem is. Pretend I'm an end user. The kind who deletes notification emails about setting up an alert. That's the kind of stuff that will go straight under the DEL key. They KNOW they just set up an alert. It was just a minute ago, after all, so that email adds nothing new and will be deleted straight away. Also, this type of end user does not know how a URL works. They click buttons. They visit the site to read stuff. They don't know anything about SharePoint. They never type anything in the address bar, but use the Google search box and type in microsoft.com. How does this user manage their alerts? My point is that there used to be an easy way to access a list of alerts on the site for the regular end user. It was a command in the ribbon. In the Modern experience, I can't find that command. It needs to be put back.

IngeborgHawighorst you can manage your alerts from Site Settings > Site Administration > User Alerts option.

What, you mean I have to keep all the notification emails from all the alerts I set ??? That's madness.

Hello, Go to your document library, on the landing page, please right-click on the name of the document library and then sleect the option "Alert Me". The Name/Title is actually not so well styled in order for users to know that they can right click on it. Thanks,Sudeep

Can users with very unique access to a document library get to Site Settings & other options within Site Settings?

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Jag Kakarlapudi
Iron Contributor
Sep 19, 2016
IngeborgHawighorst you can manage your alerts from Site Settings > Site Administration > User Alerts option.
- IngeborgHawighorst
  MVP
  Sep 20, 2016
  Hi Jag,
  
  thanks for replying. I know that approach. But not everybody is a site administrator. How does the regular Visitor or Member manage their alerts????
  - IngeborgHawighorst
    MVP
    Sep 20, 2016
    If I manually construct the link following the old experience, I get to the desired page, i.e.
    
    https://something.sharepoint.com/teams/SiteName/_layouts/15/MySubs.aspx
    
    Is that link discoverable in the "new experience"?
- Sudeep Vemulapalli
  Copper Contributor
  Sep 19, 2016
  Can users with very unique access to a document library get to Site Settings & other options within Site Settings?
Sudeep Vemulapalli
Copper Contributor
Sep 19, 2016
Hello,

Go to your document library, on the landing page, please right-click on the name of the document library and then sleect the option "Alert Me". The Name/Title is actually not so well styled in order for users to know that they can right click on it.

Thanks,
Sudeep
- IngeborgHawighorst
  MVP
  Sep 20, 2016
  Hi Sudeep,
  
  Indeed it is not clear that the libray name is clickable. But still, it only opens up the "Alert me when items change" dialog to set a new alert. I want to remove an existing alert. How do I do that?
  - Sudeep Vemulapalli
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 20, 2016
    Hello Ingeborg,
    
    The person who received the alert should have a link in the email called "Modify my alert settings".
    
    SV

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