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Using alerters to highlight key results
Overview
Alerters enable you to highlight specific ranges of results in a format that makes those
results stand out on reports.
This chapter tells you about:
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how alerters work
• creating alerters
• personalizing the formatting you want alerters to apply
• adding multiple conditions
• adding sub-alerters to highlight different ranges of results
• switching alerters on and off
• prioritizing alerters
• editing, duplicating, and removing alerters
• using the formula language – to create advanced conditions and formatting
How alerters work
Alerters enable you to highlight results that meet or fail specific business targets. You can
create a simple alerter to highlight particularly high or low results with a specific color or
with a text comment, such as “High Performer.”
Alerters are dynamic. This means that when you refresh reports with the latest data on the
database, the alerters highlight the new results accordingly.
Example: Highlight sales results that exceeded the quarterly target