ALERTING SERVICE

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The alerting service is activated once you have opened your personal account. The alerting service allows you to define search profiles for email alerts (daily or weekly) and save frequently used search profiles for later use.

Creating a search profile

• from the search form in which you wish to create a profile click alerting service
• the Alerting service window allows you to create, copy, modify, delete, load, activate or de-activate a search profile
• click create to open the Create profile window which will contain the search form from which alerting service was selected and it will include any search terms already entered
• give your search a label, this will be displayed in the list of profiles and in an email alert, e.g. cosmetics legislation plus a fuller description if required, e.g. a client's name
• select your Frequency preference (Output is set by default)
• configure your search profile, e.g.
  Words in title: cosmetic products
  Document type: directive
• click save, your new search profile is added to the My Profiles list in the alerting service window
• by default the email alerting service is activated () when a search profile is created
• check the appropriate radio button to modify, copy, delete, load, activate or de-activate a search profile

Loading a search profile

From your personal account you can load any search strategy from the My profiles list for quick searching:

• in your personal account click alerting service
• in the alerting service window your personal search profiles are listed
• check the radio button next to the profile you wish to load for searching
• click load to open the search screen containing your saved search strategy
• you can modify the strategy or just click

Activating/de-activating a search profile for email alerting

By default the email alerting service is activated when a new search profile is created. The service ensures automatic notification of new updates which match the search criteria configured in the profile.

• check the radio button next to the profile you wish to subscribe to
• click activate, a tick appears next to the profile
• click de-activate to terminate the service, removing the tick
• a search profile can still be activated later or loaded for quick searching
• click close to return to the previous screen

Email alert results

Bibliographic information of new documents matching the search criteria of a profile are sent by email. For security reasons the results are not hypertext links; to access a record you can copy and paste the document reference into the Search all form in OJ OnlinePlus or you can load and retrieve all results for the relevant profile:

• in your personal account click alerting service
• check the radio button next to the relevant profile
• click load search and the search profile will be opened
• click to retrieve all records matching the search criteria with the latest results at the top of the list.

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Help menu | Personal account | Quick Guide