Hi All, We are planning to use Sharepoint 2007 to create a database of events that will take place in our company community. I want to know if it is possible to send alerts to people, groups, etc. when an event is about to start/has started? As far as I am aware, alerts on a sharepoint list will only alert users when a new item is added. Is there a solution or a workaround for this? Thanks very much.

Alerts on SharePoint Lists work when *changes* are made (of any kind) to the List.You will thus get an alert if the event is added; modified or deleted. What you won't get from the normal alert function is an alert when an event in the list is not changed but just becomes valid. That doesn't change the list !To do what you want you need something additional for the particular event that checks when the event's time is due and then reacts by sending an Alert. I'll leave it to wiser people to decide whether that needs programming or a workflow. (So I as Moderator will leave it here in General for the present). FAQ sites: (SP 2010) http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com; (v3) http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com and (WSS 2.0) http://wssv2faq.mindsharp.com Complete Book Lists (incl. foreign language) on each site.

Depending on when you want the alerts to go out, you may be able to do something creative with views and then set the alerts based on the views (ie- events starting tommorrow). Also, I believe there are some third Party tools that might help you to some custom alerts. Bamboo has one that I have used before- http://store.bamboosolutions.com/sharepoint-alert-plus-web-part.aspx ~Jennifer Mason ~My Blog~ ~SharePoint Support~ ~SharePoint Training~ ~Follow me on Twitter!~

As Mike has said - SharePoint doesn't have this feature built in. The following post may help - I've given a few different ways you can do this sort of thing - Worlflow - Custom timer job - Codeproject example - 3 commercial solutions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/529045/dated-reminders-in-sharepoint-calendars

hello,in your case it seems to be reasonable to use simple item event receiver (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spitemeventreceiver.aspx) by overriding ItemUpdating/ItemUpdated methods. You can see example of implementation of item event receiver and its provisioning here: http://www.binarywave.com/blogs/eshupps/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=114we had slightly another case and made similiar functionality via workflow. If interval between current date and event's date is <= some configurable value (e.g. 2 days) then workflow sends email to the user, attached to this event. Workflow was implemented as inheritor of SequentialWorkflowActivity class (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.workflow.activities.sequentialworkflowactivity(VS.85).aspx)http://sadomovalex.blogspot.com

Hi, If u would like to use a third-party tool. You may use Alert Reminder Boost. It supports to send event-triggered alerts and time-triggered reminders. You can specify To, CC, BCC recipients based on user/group colums, AD user/group and email addresses. To see more feature or download the 30-day free trial. You may visit: http://www.sharepointboost.com/sharepoint-reminder.html Best!