Formatting Email Alerts in MOSS 2007

Hi,

I am new to MOSS 2007. I am trying to format the email alerts in HTML formatting without much of lead on how to proceed. Pl help me on how to go about accomplishing the task

Thanks for your help in advance

Dinesh

[246 byte] By [DineshSankaran] at [2008-1-9]

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Hi Dinesh,

You need to do a lil bit of tweaking with the files if you need to modify the alert email format. More specifically:

Go to the 12 hive and look for the XML folder
Make a backup of the AlertTemplates.xml and open this file in an XML editor for customization.
You can see that in AlertTemplates.xml, each list type (doc library, announcments etc) is represented by a separate section
If you need to make distinct alert formatting for each specific list type, go ahead and use the specific list type section only
If you need to apply formatting to all the list types, modify the GenericList section which is the first section in this file.
Expand the Format subsection
You can do all the nice things to your email body and header formatting for eg. using the formbody and headercontent sections
Apply the changes to your site by using STSADM utility stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -url