Saving Searches and Creating Email Alerts  

Favourite searches can be saved for later use, or used to create email alerts.

Saving Your Search

• Select the resources you wish to search, enter your search terms, and submit your search.
• Select Previous Searches from the menu.
  
  

• Click on the plus  symbol to add your search to your History.
  
• To view your saved searches, select My Space, and then History from the menus.
  
  

• Click on the link listed under Query to run your saved search.

Creating Email Alerts  

Searches in your History can be made into Email Alerts. When new records matching your search have been added, you will be notified by email.

• Select My Space, and then History from the menus to view your saved searches. In the example above, the first search has an alert set to run every day, on 5 databases. The second search does not yet have an alert set up.
  
• To set up an alert, click on the  icon next to a saved search. A new screen will open:

Fill in the form, making sure the mandatory fields indicated with an asterisk are completed, and click Submit. You will receive an email message when your alert has automatically run. Click on the link in the email message to run the search. Once you have set up an alert, you will see an edit  icon next to the saved search in your History. Click on this icon to change or delete an alert.