REDCap Alerts & Notifications
- Emily Martens
- Bianca Lasalandra
About
REDCap’s Alerts & Notifications feature is an enhanced replacement for the previously deprecated AutoNotify feature. You can use this feature to build triggered alerts for sending customized email notifications to one or more recipients.
Key Features
Alerts can be scheduled or activated when a form/survey is saved or based on conditional logic
Alerts can be scheduled to send immediately or after a delay
Alerts can be triggered to send once or repeatedly
Smart variables can be integrated into alert emails to pipe in user or project data
Past alerts and future scheduled alerts can be viewed in the Notification Log
Alert rules can be downloaded as a CSV and uploaded to another project
Rich text editor can be used to customize the appearance of alerts
How to Create a New Alert
Please note that in order to create a new alert, you must have Designer access to the project.
Navigate to your REDCap Project.
Click on Alerts & Notifications in the Applications menu in the left-hand sidebar.
Click on +Add New Alert.
Enter an Alert Title (1).
Specify the Alert Trigger criteria (2).
Set the Alert Schedule and specify the recurrence frequency (3).
Fill out the Message Settings (4) with the sender email, recipient email, email subject and email message.
Click Save.
