What Are Alerts?

An alert is a notification generated by an agent that delivers personalized and actionable content to specified recipients and to subscribers to the agent.

You can see the alerts that have been delivered to you throughout Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, for example:

• In the Alerts section of the Home page.

• On the first page of My Dashboard. (An Alerts section is automatically added to the first page of My Dashboard, if you do not manually place one there.)

• On a dashboard page, if the content designer adds an Alerts section to the page. See "Adding Content to Dashboards".

• In the Alerts dialog displayed from the Alerts! button in the global header.

• In specified delivery devices, such as a phone. See "What Are Devices and Delivery Profiles?"

For more information, see "Accessing and Managing Your Alerts".

Figure 8-1 shows an example of an Alert delivered to the Alerts section of the Home page.