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notification if Sharepoint site content changes
Hi there,
i am looking for a way to get a notification if the content of a Sharepoint site or sharepoint web page changes.
For example: Addition of a newspost or a new announcement or creating of a new webpart element.
I found no way in sharepoint itself and no way with power automate. Power automate only refers to list and list elements for trigger.
Best regards, Stefan
- HI there,
its unbelievable but i found a solution: Its is possible with on-board resources of SharePoint. How does it work? Every user now has the opportunity to register for events such as creating, changing, etc. WebSiteObjects, including WebPages to be informed.
To enable this feature for monitoring changes in a website page, do this steps as follow:
-> Website content -> Website pages-> navigate to the relevant page and select "Notify me" in the "three-point menu" and set the desired notification options- Found your post today while looking for the exact same thing. Thanks for posting your solution for users to opt in to alerts!
Now, do you have any idea if / how there is a way to set defaults for alerts? I'd like to have alerts for new News posts and new Documents added for all guests as I add them. They can opt out if they choose. Any ideas? Stefan2078 Do we have a way to send notifications via Teams. Please Help me to find solution for my problem. Thanks in Advance
Or, go to Site Pages, then the . . . menu, then select Alert Me.
Still looking for a way for end users to do this, it was possible in older versions. I don't want to send people to my Site Pages to set up the alert and I don't want everyone to have to do a WorkFlow because it isn't intuitive. Still looking for a way to manage alerts for when content changes from the page itself if anyone has insight.
On your "visitor" end user, you go the the setting gear in upper right corner > site contents > site pages > then the page desired, you will click the "..." and it should have the option of "Alert me" above "More".
In SharePoint, you can add an Alert on the SitePages library Create an alert to get notified when a file or folder changes in SharePoint (microsoft.com)
If you need something more advanced then you can use Power Automate. You can setup a Flow to trigger when an item is modified in the SitePages library Using Microsoft Flow to know when a Modern Page is published – Joanne C Klein
- Hi SteveKnutson, thank for your answer. But my desire is to find a way getting a note if the content of a Sharepoint site or sharepoint web page changes. Not if a file or folder changed or was added.
- Unfortunately that type of functionality doesn't exist in SharePoint. If you have a page containing dynamic content, then you can only alert when the source content changes.
