Change Send e-mail when ownership is assigned? radio button to Yes Scroll to E-Mail Notification section.From Issues or Tasks Web part, click on List > List Settings.To configure email notification for Assigned To column: Both lists have the Assigned To column, but most importantly, a setting for email notification.

It is only available on 2 web parts: Issue Tracking and Tasks. This column is not available on any list. The next available option for user notifications is to use Assigned To column and configure it to send an email when the item is assigned to someone. Once setup, a user will get an email notification that looks like this (and it shows what has changed about the item too!) As a user, you can set up different triggers for the alerts (item addition, deletions or modifications), as well as the frequency. I actually published a detailed post on the topic, so you can read more about alerts here. The beauty about this is that it is a self-service feature and any user can set up an alert themselves in just a few seconds. The first option thatвЂ™s available on any list or library is the alert capability. How do you make this happen? This post will explain the available options. Say, you add some content to the list and want to notify a user of changes in a SharePoint list. SharePoint lists are great at storing non-document content like issues, tasks, events, contacts or any other info via aВ custom list.

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