Changing who receives an Alert – Fenwick Support

Alerts can be distributed to Business Central users by using details from Customer, Vendor, the triggered table, or directly to an email address.

Highlight the appropriate Alert Entry and modify the Recipients list as required.

Field	Explanation
Type	How the Name and Email are fetched.
Use a Field Value	Tick this to fetch the Name and Email by using a field value from the record.
No.	If using a field value, select a Recipient Field. See 'Setting which fields can be used as a recipient'. Otherwise select an entry from the table determined by the Type when applicable (e.g. Customer).
Name	If using a field value, the name of the field. Otherwise the name of the recipient.
Email	The Email address to which the Alert will be sent.
Send Alert	Send an User Alert when the Alert is triggered. This is only available when the Type is User. There may be a My Unread Alerts stack on the user's role centre or search and open My User Alerts
Send Email	Send an Email when the Alert is triggered.

Examples

Below are some examples of how Recipients might be setup.

Example #	Description
1	Type = User Select a specific user from the User list to send the alert and/or email to
2	Type = Email, Use a Field Value = ticked Select a field from the Alert table to be used to send the email to. See the Setting fields available for a table section in this article
3	Type = Email, Use a Field Value = unticked Enter a specific Name and Email address to send the email to.
4	Type = User Who Triggers An Alert and/or email to the user who triggers the alert
5	Type = Salesperson/Purchaser, Use a Field Value = ticked An email is sent to the salesperson/purchaser code from the relevant Alert table. See the Setting fields available for a table section in this article NOTE: if the Use a Field Value is unticked in then the No. field will look up to the Salesperson/Purchaser list and a specific code can be selected.
6	Type = Team An email is sent to all the members in the Team. A Team in Business Central is a group of employees recorded as Salespeople/Purchasers.
7	Type = Contact, Use a Field Value = unticked An email is sent to a specific Contact from the Contact list.