Reference Guide

Using alerters to highlight key results264
For example, you can create an alerter to highlight any sales revenue results that exceeded
your quarterly sales revenue target of $900K. Each time you refresh the report data, the
sales revenue results equal to or greater than $900K will be highlighted in yellow.
What makes up an alerter?
To create an alerter, you need to specify five elements:
• a name
• an object or cell contents
• an operator
• an operand (either a value(s) or another object)
• the conditional formatting
For example, this is an alerter designed to highlight sales revenue results equal to or
greater than $900K:
the alerter name:
Large Earners
the object: [Sales
revenue]
the operator:
Greater than or
equal to
the operand: 900000
the conditional formatting:
yellow background