1. Unique SharePoint Reminder workflow, monitoring your schedules and sending reminder emails to you.
If users want to send SharePoint reminder emails for upcoming deadlines, overdue item, or change of item status, SharePoint 2007 "Alert Me" can not provide such function. With SharePoint Reminder Boost, these requirements can be fulfilled. Then, SharePoint Reminder Boost acts like an alarming clock to send you SharePoint email notification. For instance, if users want to send SharePoint reminder email on the date exact 30 days before expiration date, they could use the expression as "[Expiration Date] == AddDays([Today], 30)" when setting SharePoint reminder workflow. If users want to send SharePoint reminder email every day from 30 days ahead to the expiration date , they could set the expression as "[Expiration Date] <= AddDays([Today], 30) && [Expiration Date] >= [Today]" in SharePoint Reminder Boost.
2. SharePoint Alert Reminder Boost provides more customizable email notification sending targets, including user/group field columns, email addresses, email columns, and AD users/groups.
SharePoint 2007"Alert Me" is function-limited when applied in a complex enterprise-environment. For instance, if you want the assignees on a task list receive SharePoint alerts when they are assigned to a task, with SharePoint 2007"Alert Me", you have to add "Alert Me" on every single item, and when assignee changes, a modification of "Alert Me" setting is needed.
SharePoint Alert Reminder Boost resolves this problem by setting user/group field columns as sending targets. Therefore, in addition to sending SharePoint alerts and SharePoint reminder emails to specific existing SharePoint users/groups, the workflows can also send SharePoint alerts and SharePoint reminder emails to user/group field columns, including "Created By", "Modified By", and user/groups columns like "Manager". Furthermore, SharePoint alerts and SharePoint reminder emails’ sending targets could be email addresses, email columns, and AD users/groups. For instance, if you need to send emails to a customer when his (her) issue is solved, you should add Alert Boost workflow on the customer issue list and configure "Customer Email" column as SharePoint alerts’ sending targets.
3. Various SharePoint Alert and Reminder email triggering conditions make SharePoint Alert Reminder Powerful than ever.
Sending condition with Alert Reminder Boost is more powerful in SharePoint alerts and SharePoint reminder emails. Expressions in SharePoint Alert Boost and SharePoint Reminder Boost support functions, operators and columns of the list. Suppose you want to send SharePoint email notification to someone when a document is approved other than modified, you should set sending condition as "[Status] =="Approved"" when applying SharePoint Alert Reminder Boost to avoid excessive and useless emails.
4. SharePoint alert and reminder email content can be customized. Any new content is highlighted in the notification, thereby making the important points easier to find, while deleted content is crossed out.
SharePoint alerts and SharePoint reminder emails’ contents can be customized. Subjects of SharePoint alerts/SharePoint reminder emails can also be user-defined with your own text and column placeholders.
Except for containing item information in email body, which is an out-of-box function of SharePoint 2007 "Alert Me", Alert Reminder Boost marks the modified details in SharePoint alerts and SharePoint reminder emails, STRIKETHROUGH represents detail deleted, while HIGHLIGHT means newly-added, so as to project the key of the SharePoint alerts and SharePoint reminder emails.
Furthermore, Columns can be used as placeholders when set in the content configure page of SharePoint alerts and SharePoint reminder emails, while displayed as content of this column to recipient.
5. Item attachment is available in SharePoint Alert Reminder Boost.
Item attachments still can be added as email's attachments in SharePoint Alert Boost workflow and SharePoint Reminder Boost workflow.
6. Easily Setup SharePoint Alert with SharePoint Alert reminder Boost exporting and importing functions.
When using SharePoint 2007 “Alert Me” and other third party Add-ons, you have to add Alert Part to every list when you want to set Alert conditions. While SharePoint Alert Reminder Boost possesses import/export function, which enables you to repeat using some Alert Part more convenient.
Why Did We Build It?
SharePoint Alert Reminder Boost contains SharePoint Alert Boost workflow and SharePoint Reminder workflow for sending SharePoint alert and SharePoint reminder emails. They run on SharePoint lists, extend default SharePoint Alert Me function and provide additional features beyond out-of-box SharePoint 2007 “Alert Me”.

SharePoint alerts( SharePoint alert emails ) can be easily subscribed for in using SharePoint Alert Reminder Boost. The following sample will show you how to use this workflow.
1. Create a SharePoint Group named "Task Owner" and add some users.

2. Enter workflow setting page, and you can find SharePoint Alert Boost Workflow in workflow template list. Type workflow name and select a task list, history list for it. In order to start this workflow automatically, you must be sure that both "Start this workflow when a new item is created" and "Start this workflow when an item is changed" are selected.

3. In the main setting page of SharePoint Alert workflow, click "Add Alert Part" to add a new part.

4. Configure Alert Part
- Type a name for this alert part .
- Select "All Changes", which means that the user will receive related SharePoint alerts (alert emails) whenever a task item is added, modified, or deleted.
- Type alert condition expression in Alert Condition textbox when you need to customize sending condition.

In Subject of Email, enter [Title]-[Status], and select "Mark workflow name at subject" and "Mark Alert type at subject".
In Alert Content, select Include item information in Alert email. The alert email will contain all the field value of the item.

Type "Task Owner" into "Send to" textbox, and select "Assigned to". The alert email will send to users in Task Owner group and in field value of the item which triggers the workflow.

5. Click"OK" back to Alert main page, then click "OK" button to save the SharePoint Alert Boost workflow configuration.
6. Go back to the task list, which has been set with SharePoint Alert Boost workflow. When you add a task item, the “Task Owner” group will receive alert email for the new item.


7. Change status value from "Not Stated" to "Completed" and "%Complete" value from "0" to "100". Then you will get the edit item specifics in the SharePoint alerts (SharePoint alert emails).

8. Delete the task item; and you will receive an alert email for deleting item.

SharePoint Reminder Boost workflow can notify person when his task exceeds time limit. The following situations demonstrate how to apply it.
- Send alert email when the day is overhead the due time, and the status of this task is "Not Completed".
- The alert email will be sent twice a day, one is at 9:00, and the other is at 12:00. But if the day is not a workday, the workflow could stop sending alert emails.
- The alert email will be sent to person in charge of the task and BCC to persons in Task Owner group.
The configuration of SharePoint Reminder Boost workflow is similar to SharePoint Alert Boost workflow and the only difference lies in alert part setting page.
- Type a name for the alert part.
- In "Set Reminder", we set "Start time" on 9:00:00, "End time" on 23:00:00, and "Interval time"0.1 which equals to 6 minutes. In Alert Condition, we type the expression "[Status] != "In Progress" && Weekday([Today]) != 6 && Weekday([Today]) != 7 && [Today] > [Due Date]", which means that the workflow will only remind overdue task on workday.

Type [Title]-[Status] in Subject of email and mark the all check box.
Type "Pay Attention: This task [Title] has exceeded the time limit, please finished it as soon as possible" with red font color in order to tell the people the task is overdue.

Select "Assigned to" and type "Task Owner" in BCC.
Create an item for this task list. You will receive alert emails when the condition expression matches.

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System Requirements
| Operating System: |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x86/x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x86/x64
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| Server: |
SharePoint Release:
- Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Microsoft .NETs Framework 2.0 or 3.0
Note: This product is not compatible with SPS 2003 and WSS v2 |
| Browser: |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or greater is recommended for Advanced Administration features |
Release Notes
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1.9.1023.0
Oct 26th, 2009
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New Feature:
- Add an option that enables users to "Start workflow for all the items".
Bugs Fixed:
- The workflow would still be triggered when [Multiple lines of text]=="", even though the alert condition was set to be [multiple line text]!="";
- IsChanged function could not work properly when choosing "Calculated" column;
- If users choose to "Exit workflow after this email sent", the contents modified would not be highlighted in the email;
- When "Exit workflow after this email sent" being selected, two emails would be sent to users with different workflow status ("In progress" and "Completed" respectively).
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1.9.820.0
Aug 21st, 2009
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Licensing module upgraded. |
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1.9.731.0
Aug 6th, 2009
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Bugs Fixed:
- Users enable to select the contents in Lookup Column or Choice Column as email address;
- Allowing automatically removing duplicated email addresses in email titles (case-insensitive);
- Able to highlight the Name Column in email body if it is changed;
- Resolved the error: the style of contents in Multiple Line Text Column in email is not the same as it is in SharePoint environment;
- Enabling to display columns containing email addresses only when users sending, CC or BCC emails.
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1.8.522.0
May 22rd, 2009
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Licensing module upgraded. |
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1.7.320.0
Mar 24th, 2009
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New Feature:
- Allow users to add a link to a document in an email, if the workflow associates with a document library.
Bugs Fixed:
- If the list has no mobile view, the mobile view’s url will not be displayed in an email;
- If the list isn't a document library, the Name column will not display in neither alert part nor email.
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1.6.120.0
Jan 20th, 2009
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New Features:
- Allow customization on whether columns being displayed in an alert email or not, as well as the display order;
- Include mobile link in alert email so that users can directly click the link to view/edit the item with mobile services.
Bugs Fixed:
- Emails cannot be sent when the subjects contain newline character;
- Some bugs with recurrence event reminder.
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1.5.1205.0
Dec 5th, 2008
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New Features:
- Availability of farm license;
- Support reminding recurrence events.
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1.3.1.3789
Oct 15th, 2008
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Bug Fixed:
- Column information in the alert email is not the same as it being in display form.
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1.3.0.3709
Oct 10th, 2008
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New Feature:
- Send alert or reminder emails to AD users or groups who are not in the current site.
Bug Fixed:
- Performance enhancement by reducing the workflow histories that can be saved.
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1.2.6.0
Sep 28th, 2008
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New Features:
- Add function "IsChanged" to condition expression to examine if the content of specified column has been changed or not when workflow is activated on that item;
- Warn and refuse submitting when SharePoint outgoing email server or custom SMTP server is not appointed.
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1.2.5.0
Sep 16th, 2008
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Bug Fixed:
- Resolved the error which happened when inserting image into a new item, but saving it unsuccessfully for certain reason, such as the title is empty.
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1.2.4.0
Sep 11st, 2008
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Bug Fixed:
- Date and time field does not display correctly in the email content.
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1.2.0.0
Aug 18th, 2008
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New Features:
- Allow users to "Exit workflow after email being sent";
- Add "alert condition help link" and "function help tip";
- Enable all workflow to associate when activating workflow feature.
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1.1.1.0
Jul 16th, 2008
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Bug Fixed:
- Send item attachments as attachments in Alert email depending on if users choose to do this.
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1.1.0.0
Jun 27th, 2008
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Initial Release |
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