Setting up a new Continuous Alert

Use the "Set up new Continuous Alert" tab to choose your sources, define your search, and set up the email address where you'd like to receive your alert.

Click a link below for more information:

Set up a new alert

The Set up new Continuous Alert Tab

Set up a new alert

Note:  In order to give you the broadest possible results set for your initial searching, relevance results are not incorporated when you run your initial search. Your relevancy filter will be added when results are delivered.

1. Click the "Set up new Continuous Alert" tab.
2. Enter your search terms in the Search Terms textbox. See Search Tips for help with connectors.
3. Select your sources. See Sources for more help.
4. Select your Factiva Intelligent Indexing™ options. See Factiva Intelligent Indexing™ for more help.
5. Select your delivery options. You must give the alert a name and enter an email address for delivery, at a minimum.
6. Click the "Continue - Test Search" button.
7. Review the results.
• If these results are not what you want, click the "Modify Search" link to change your options.
• If these are the results you want, click the "Start Tracking" button. Then click the "OK" button on the following page to acknowledge that your alert was successfully set up.

The Set up new Continuous Alert tab

At a minimum, you must enter search terms, an alert name, and an Email address to create an alert.

The options on this page are defined below.

Search terms:

Enter your search terms. You can use search connectors to enter more than one term, if desired. For instance, you may want to see information about two companies: Lucent Technologies and AT&T. You must decide how closely you want these terms to be related in order to choose the proper connector.

You can use these connectors and operators in your search:

and	or	not	same	w/N	adjN
nearN	/nN/	*	$N	?	wc> or wc<

For a list of connectors and when to use them, see Search Tips.

Select sources and Factiva Intelligent indexing™

This area contains the following categories that you can expand in order to choose more specific items and Factiva Intelligent Indexing™ options.

• Categories — The categories are automatically displayed in a condensed format, with all available items selected. If you want to see what items are in a category, click the to expand the list.
  
  For example, to see which sources are available, click the enter a source name or type of interest to you, such as "wsj", then select the source you want from the resulting list. You may select more than one item.
  
  Click the to collapse expanded sections, if desired.
  
  The expandable categories are:
• Source
• Company
• Subject
• Industry
• Region
• Language
• Options
  
  

Search for free-text terms in:

Use the drop-down list to choose whether you want to look in a:

• Full Article
• Headline and Lead Paragraph
• Headline
• Author





Search content

Use the checkboxes to choose whether you want to search Publications, WebSites, or both.



Date:

Use the drop-down list to specify whether you want to search articles: In the last day, In the last week, or In the last month



Exclude:

Use the checkboxes to select any types of sources you want to exclude.



Relevance level:

The degree to which a document is related to a term is called relevance ranking. Relevance ranking measures the similarity between your index terms and the documents being searched. "High" references have a relevance ranking of 85% or more to a term. "Medium" references have a relevance ranking of 75% or more.

Scoring takes into account several factors, including:

1. The number of terms included in the query and how many of the search terms are found in a document.
2. The number of times any term appears in an article.
3. The word count of a document.



Note:  In order to give you the broadest possible results set for your initial searching, relevance results are not incorporated when you run your initial search. Your relevancy filter will be added when results are delivered.

Delivery Options:

You must assign an alert name and specify an email address, at a minimum.

Alert name:

Assign a meaningful name that is up to 25 characters long, and that does not contain any of these characters: < > & # \ % + |

Send results to: (Email address)

Enter the email address where you want to receive your results.

Email language:

Use the drop-down list to choose an alternate language, if available.

Results display format:

Use the drop-down list to choose whether you want to receive your results in Full-text documents, Headlines and lead sentences (with link to full-text), or Full-text with indexing.

Email format:

Use the drop-down list to choose a format for your email: Plain Text, HTML (browser language), or Mobile.