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create sharepoint alert

I can create an alert for a user, but how can I do it for a security group ?
the code I attach here works for the user, but how do I do it for a GROUP ?

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;

namespace Create_Alerts_Sharepoint
{
    public class Class1
    {

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
           using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://shdev01/kp"))
           {
                 using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) 
               { 
                    SPUser user = web.SiteUsers[@"DOMAIN\user"];
              SPAlert newAlert = user.Alerts.Add();
              newAlert.Title = "Latest News";
              newAlert.AlertType = SPAlertType.List;
              newAlert.List = web.Lists["Carrefour"];
              newAlert.EventType = SPEventType.All;
              newAlert.AlertFrequency = SPAlertFrequency.Daily;
                    newAlert.AlertTime = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, DateTime.Today.Day, 12, 0, 0);
                    newAlert.AlertTime = newAlert.AlertTime.AddDays(1);
                     newAlert.Update(false); 
                } 
            }
        }
    }
}

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larrbe

Hi,
depends what you refer to as group. Check this site http://danishhussain.blogspot.com/2009/07/sending-alerts-to-group-using-share.html about adding groups to alerts in SahrePoint in general. Out of the box you can only use AD email enabled groups but not SharePoint groups.

dekempeneer

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It is an AD email enabled group, I can set the alert from within sharepoint itself, but then all users from that group receive an email that they are subscribed to that alert. Using code I can avoid this.

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AlMothanaAlOmari

use SPGroup instead of SPuser
SPWeb oWebsite = SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb

{ SPGroup oGroup = oWebsite.SiteGroups["Original_Name"];

}

dekempeneer

ASKER

That was it, I needed to add this usergroup to the Visitors group.

beardog1113

Dear ALL
could you please let me know how to use this code in sharepoint site? i just created a sharepoint site use HelpDesk template download from Microsoft, and i would like to setup alert, if anyone create a new request, the sharepoint can send me notification email.