Hello everyone,
I have understood the working of simple and advanced alerts and successfully sent an advanced alert as well.
The problem is that I have 4-5 published data sources. I am creating vizalert based on the date field to check if data is lagging. I created the email fields in all the data sources (in a single workbook) and created 5 different sheets (each for one datasource) displaying the Email fields to get alerts. This works for me and I get 5 different alerts.
Is there a way to do this in a single sheet or dashboard?
As per the guide shared to community - it is feasible
https://github.com/tableau/VizAlerts/blob/master/docs/user_guide.md#what_is_vizalerts
I would recommend reading through the manual and give it a try (few information from manual shared below for awareness)
Multithreaded Notifications
Several folks have brought up that they've got VizAlerts that send hundreds of emails out at once. Previous versions took a while to do this, because each was running in a single thread. No more. Now, each VizAlert can send as many emails or SMS messages at the same time as the Admin will allow. (Note that content references are still processed one at a time, within a single VizAlert)
Consolidated (review this section in the manual)
Consolidated Alerts
There are several use cases for consolidated multiple alerts into a single email or SMS:
- VizAlerts is so awesome that your users sign up for a ton of alerts! But then they get bombarded with emails. By consolidating emails, their inbox won’t be quite so full.
- There’s a manager who wants to get individualized dashboards for each of her direct reports, but doesn’t want an email for each person--just one email with all of the reports.
- You want to generate an image or PDF for each region, product category, customer segment, etc. but can’t get the Pages Shelf to do what you want. VizAlerts can come to your rescue!
- There is a process that generates multiple warning messages and you want them all in the same alert.
- You hit a character limit in a single Tableau field and want to expand the space you have by consolidating fields together!
