Group SharePoint alerts in My Alerts Organizer

Group SharePoint alerts in My Alerts Organizer

Overview of My Alerts Organizer display

Applying grouping to the default presentation of alert items from the My Alerts Organizer display is easy and lets users quickly assess and manage their SharePoint alerts associated with a site.

Step Action Result
1. From the My Alerts Administrator display page drag the header of the column you want to group by into the grouping bar.
Image of column being dragged to the blue grouping bar
The arrows on the extreme left indicate the header is in the grouping bar.
Image of items grouped by the header
Alerts grouped by Event type
2. You can group by more than one value just by adding the new column header to the grouping bar
Image or column header being reordered in the grouping bar
The displayed items will be grouped in the order in which the headers appear in the grouping bar.
Image of Alert items grouped by Alert Frequency, then by Event type
3. To reorder the groupings move the header in the grouping bar
Grouping bar
The alerts items will be regrouped accordingly
HW40_Grouping_2_Values_reordered.png
4.

To remove a header click the “x” associated with the header title in the grouping bar
Grouping bar

NOTE: If using SharePoint 2007 you will drag the column header out of the grouping bar.

The alerts items will be reorganized

NOTE: Groupings are not saved when you leave the My Alerts Organizer console