How to get alerts for a user within a single web applicaiton in different site collection.?

Question

How can we get alerts for a user in all site collection with in a web application.

alerts may be for lists, libraries, webs in different site collection but same web application....

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kukdai

Answer 1

Hi,

It is not possible out of the box, you should do it programmatcially to get all alerts for specificuser in all site collections with in a web application:

 SPSite mysite = new SPSite(http://yoursite);
            SPWebApplication webapplication = mysite.WebApplication;

            
            SPSiteCollection siteCollections = webapplication.Sites;


            foreach (SPSite siteCollection in siteCollections)
            {

                using (SPSite oSiteCollection = new SPSite(siteCollection.Url))
                {
                    SPWebCollection collWebsites = oSiteCollection.AllWebs;
                    foreach (SPWeb oWebsite in collWebsites)
                    {
                        SPUser user = oWebsite.EnsureUser(@"dc\Administrator");
                        SPAlertCollection alertColl = user.Alerts;
                        foreach (SPAlert alert in alertColl)
                        {
                            Console.WriteLine(alert.Title);
                        }
                        Console.ReadLine();
                    }
                }
            }

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Xue-mei Chang

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