Notification of changes to ANY email address

Barry Weiss

Hi,

 

I would like to provide alerts to some users who may not be a collaborator on a sheet but rather an interested party who is monitoring an embedded sheet on a web page.  As people enter data into the sheet via a webform, I would like to be able to send a notification to any email address so they can be alerted to go look at the embedded form, even though they are not a collaborator on the sheet itself.

 

Or another option would be an option for any user to subscribe to changes on a sheet so individuals can opt in to alerts on their own.

 

I hope that makes sense.

 

Thanks,

Barry

Chuck Muirhead

Good morning Barry,

 

Currently notifications are only sent to those who the sheet has been shared.  One option though, is that you could create a report to pull only the information the non-collabotaors would need and set-up a recurring "Send Attachment" report.  The person would receive periodic emails with information and they could choose to opt-out by replying to the email asking to un-subscribe.  You would then remove them from the mailing list.  You would only have to do this for the people for who the sheet is not shared.

John Hammond

To build on what Chuck said, you can create a report that shows only rows that were modified in the last X days. Just use the Modified (Date) column as a criteria. 

Atus Bartal

This functionality would be important for me as well. What I would like to do is to send notifications to specific email addresses that are on a sheet. It makes sense when I want to inform a client (who is evidently not a shared user) when something happens to his/her data (i.e. an approval is checked). Reports don't help at this point (I should build a lot, and I would like to automate things like this).