Scheduling notification for recipients

During the recipient configuration process, you can enable the Limit when notifications can be sent option to select the times of the day and the days of the week the recipient is available to receive the notification messages. You can modify the schedule after the recipient is configured by editing recipient notification properties.

To configure the notification schedule for recipients during recipient configuration

  1. On the Recipient Properties dialog box, under the Limit when notifications can be sent group box, click Enable to activate the option.

    To access the Recipient Properties dialog box, on the navigation bar, click Alerts. On the task pane, under Notification Tasks, click Configure recipients. Click New to create a new recipient or select an existing recipient and then click Properties.

  2. Click Schedule.

  3. Do any of the following:

    • Clear the Include work days check box to exclude Monday through Friday from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M.

    • Clear the Include weeknights check box to exclude Monday through Friday from 6 P.M. to 8 A.M.

    • Clear the Include weekends check box to exclude Saturday and Sunday, 24 hours a day.

    You can select any combination of Include work days, Include weeknights, or Include weekends, or click any single hour of the chart to select or clear that hour.

  4. After selecting the days and times you want, click OK.

Scheduling notification for recipients