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The ASSIST Alert Service automatically notifies users whenever a user-specified document has changed, or when a new document has been added to ASSIST in a user-specified FSC or Standardization Area. Users with ASSIST-Online accounts can set their individual alert profiles to specify the documents for which alerts should be issued. Each business day, the Alert Service generates user-specific email messages with document information matching individual alert profiles.
ASSIST provides a related application, My Alert Portal, that lets users access the recently modified documents. This personal portal may be accessed directly from hyperlinks embedded in each alert notification message. Menu options and buttons within ASSIST-Online also provide links to this personal portal. Within your portal, you can scroll through related document lists, access revision history information, and view documents online. My Alert Portal maintains a list of all documents matching alert criteria during the previous two weeks and, therefore, is a constantly changing window of information.
Both the Alert Service and Portal are free to registered users of the ASSIST-Online. Simply follow the instructions below to get started:
The first step
is to
register for a user account to use ASSIST-Online. All Alert
Service features, including profile management options, are managed through
this system. Once you have a valid account, log on to the
ASSIST-Online.
Next, set up
your individual Alert Profile by specifying which documents are of interest.
Start by clicking on the User Profile button (on the site’s left frame) to
display a menu of related options and select the desired Alert Portal Profile
Maintenance option.
Documents Criteria
– This maintenance page allows you to individually specify documents to be
included in your profile. Use the Add Document section at the top of the
page to “submit” documents to the Profiled Documents section below. Note
that this screen also gives you the ability to specify a blanket request for:
MS Drawings – If this box is selected, you will be alerted to changes
for all associated documents.
DIDs – If this box is selected, you will be alerted to changes
for all associated documents.
FSC Criteria
– This maintenance page allows you to record blanket requests for all documents
associated with one or more specified FSCs and/or Standardization Areas.
In some cases, it is possible to redundantly request a document through different profile maintenance pages. For example, you may include MIL-STD-105 in your Documents Criteria list which falls under an FSC that is specified in FSC Criteria. By design, such documents will appear multiple times in appropriate places within alert notification email messages and sections within My Alert Portal listings.
Alert notifications
will automatically be issued on a daily basis to the email address you have
specified for your account. Accordingly, it is important that this address
be accurate. To view or edit this address, select the Account Profile Maintenance
menu option within ASSIST-Online’s User Profile module.
Note that all users have the option to disable alert notifications. At the bottom of your account information, the Alert Service Notification radio buttons may be used to enable/disable the notification feature. This means that ASSIST will no longer issue email messages when profiled documents are identified. With this feature disabled, My Portal will continue to reflect information specific to your alert criteria. This feature is most useful in cases where your profile criteria are exhaustive (resulting in too many unwanted messages) or you are going to be temporarily out of town and do not wish to fill up your email inbox.
A sample alert notification message is provided below: