Restricting email alerting to files only not whole doc libraries

Is there a way to restrict email alerts so users an only set up alerts on
individual files/items, instead of on an entire document library?

We are using Sharepoint for client portals. Our document libraries have many
files in them that are updated monthly or quarterly. We do not want our
clients to get bombarded with email alerts each month, when the whole set of
documents gets updated. We'd like to prevent them from signing up for alerts
on an entire document libary but would like them to be able to sign up for
alerts on a few individual documents.

EricaT
Fri Jan 06 16:38:03 CST 2006

Sorry, I am 90% sure there isn't a way to restrict alerts. That is a good
idea though.

Erica

"SMR" wrote:

> Is there a way to restrict email alerts so users an only set up alerts on
> individual files/items, instead of on an entire document library?
>
> We are using Sharepoint for client portals. Our document libraries have many
> files in them that are updated monthly or quarterly. We do not want our
> clients to get bombarded with email alerts each month, when the whole set of
> documents gets updated. We'd like to prevent them from signing up for alerts
> on an entire document libary but would like them to be able to sign up for
> alerts on a few individual documents.