Edit Alert Groups
4 min
required permissions only users who are assigned to a role with herd configuration permissions can use this feature see edit dairy user permissions docid\ gw6zx7tfc4ihsbrtozc v and manage dairy roles docid 9yjukdzfab0kko1hw0mxj for more information on the alert groups docid\ xg8w4zjyh7canxzrtvg7m page, you can easily edit the details for an alert group by clicking on an alert group to open a side panel that displays the alert group details you can change you cannot add or edit alert groups until alerts and thresholds are enabled in pulse and at least one alert threshold value is entered on the indicators docid\ ch4lk87pjtzpylosgvosp page for your herd see step 1 enable & set up health indicators docid\ wc btvhhzk4q4g1azbtls and step 2 enter alert thresholds docid\ fwcptx03hexnw3txsjvkp for instructions see the guidelines below to learn more about editing alert group details all required fields are marked with the (asterisk) symbol click the delete button in the upper right corner of the side panel to delete the alert group see delete alert groups docid\ ef c clsuqjsuftcgbsnm for instructions the indicators to track section shows all event indicators that are currently being tracked by this alert group the total number of event indicators being tracked by the alert group displays at the top right of this section you can click the x next to an event indicator to remove it, or click clear all to stop tracking all event indicators in the alert group click add more indicators to track additional event indicators in this alert group the users to notify section shows all members of your dairy team that are currently being notified by this alert group the total number of users receiving notifications displays at the top right of this section note pulse sends notifications for alert groups only by text or email alert group notifications are not added to the message center docid\ tvk2rx3gfnaarni3sbolq or to the notifications button docid\ ht6afgaeuovriqitn1yqa as a new activity badge check the sms and email boxes to send notifications to users as text messages, emails, or both you can click the x next to a user's name to remove them, or click clear all to stop all users from receiving notifications for the alert group click add more users to notify more users in this alert group note the sms box cannot be checked for a user who does not have a mobile phone number listed in account settings additionally, pulse cannot send sms alerts to international phone numbers at this time, but they can still receive email alerts! the time preferences section shows the time of day when pulse examines thresholds for your herd and notifies your dairy team the time specified is in your local dairy's time select the preferred time of day in the hour and minutes fields note the time specified in this section and the period selected when configuring indicators on the indicators docid\ ch4lk87pjtzpylosgvosp page determine how often pulse examines thresholds and sends notifications the results of these selections can be viewed as new processes on the process scheduler docid lld7gllxhjk xdeutds1 page for your dairy see step 4 view scheduled alerts in process scheduler docid\ ii2mew87czwa0mg4a0pde for more information once you're done editing the information, click save the alert groups docid\ xg8w4zjyh7canxzrtvg7m page is displayed and pulse displays a message indicating that the alert group was edited note any changes made to an alert group affect all scheduled occurrences of the alert group