Using the Alert Editor
You can use the alert editor to create and edit
alert messages. You cannot edit the default alert messages, because
they are read-only.
Configuration settings
You can use the menus, tokens, and tools described below to format the text.
- Alert name: To give a meaningful name
to the alert you are about to create, or view the name of an existing alert.
- Reset: To undo any changes you have made
since you last saved the alert message.
- Show: To specify how the alert message should be displayed within
the user interface. You can select:
- HTML content (WYSIWYG): To hide the
underlying html code and display only the content of the alert message.
- HTML content (Source): To display the html code as it appears
before it has been compiled.
- Plain text: To view the text as plain text.
You can use the following menus, tokens, and tools to create the alert message text.
Menus
- [Style]: To change the style (or tag) of the selected text, such as
its heading level.
- [Font]: To change the font type of the selected text.
For example, you can change
text that is Sans Serif to Serif
or Monospaced.
- [Size]: To change the size of the selected text.
- [Tokens]: To use any of the tokens described below.
Tokens are place holders for information that will be provided later. For
example, if you want the alert message to tell the reader which DAT files
were used to detect the item, you can select the
AVDATVERSION token. When the detection is made and the alert
message sent, the software replaces the %AVDATVERSION% token
with the actual DAT version information. Tokens are always in capital letters
and begin and end with a % sign.
Tokens
- ATTACHMENTNAME: To include the file name of the attachment.
- DETECTIONS: To include detection details.
- ACTIONNAME: To include a description of the action taken when the item was detected.
- AVDATVERSION: To include details of the DAT files used to detect the item.
- AVENGINEVERSION: To include details of the scanning engine used to detect the item.
Tools
: To make the selected text bold.
: To make the selected text italic.
: To underline the selected text.
: To left align the selected paragraph.
: To center the selected paragraph.
: To right align the selected paragraph.
: To adjust the selected paragraph so that the
lines within the paragraph fill a given width, with straight left and right edges.
: To make the selected text
into a numbered list.
: To make the selected text into a bulleted list.
: To move the selected text a set distance to the
right. This is known as "indenting".
: To move the selected text
a set distance to the left. This is known as "outdenting".
: To change the color
of the selected text.
: To change the background color of
the selected text.
: To insert a horizontal line.
: To insert a hyperlink where the cursor
is currently positioned. In URL type the URL. In Text, type the name
of the hyperlink as you want it to appear in the alert message.
If you want the link to open a new window, select Open link in new window, then
click Insert Link.
: To insert an image where the
cursor is currently positioned. In Image URL type the location of the image.
In Alternative Text, type the text you want to use in place of the image when
images are suppressed, or the alert message is displayed in a text-only browser.
If you want to give the image a title, type the title name in Use this text as the image title.
Click Insert Image.
: To insert a table at the current cursor position.
Use the table settings to configure the table, and then click Insert Table.