Answers.Body: <p>I am not sure I understand completely what you want to achieve, but if you want to send an email to checks@example.org every time a contact in group Special changes here is what you would have to do:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>install the Email API action (<a href="https://civicrm.org/extensions/e-mail-api" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://civicrm.org/extensions/e-mail-api</a>) which will also add the CiviRule action <em>Send Email</em></li>
  <li>add a new Rule with trigger <em>Contact of Any Type is Changed</em></li>
  <li>add condition <em>Contact is in Group</em> and select group Special</li>
  <li>add an action <em>Send Email</em> and add email address checks@example.org</li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers.Text: That does sound like what I am trying to do. I am try that as soon as I get a chance.
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    <p>Occasionally a member of the staff will make a change to a volunteers contact information.</p>
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  <p>How about that make that change via a Profile and then you can set the Profile settings to notify someone, ie do this instead of having the changes made directly on the Contact Summary screen. I think that logic would get what you want, but understand it could be hard to get they 'staff' to remember to only change certain records via a Profile</p>
  
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Answers.Text: will also depend what sort of information is being changed
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Answers.Text: I like that idea and it would be simply.  Unfortunately the staff will be browsing the profiles from the dashboard though.  They will doing  all the editing back there.
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Answers.Body: <p>You could possibly use the CiviRules extension (<a href="https://civicrm.org/extensions/civirules" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://civicrm.org/extensions/civirules</a>)( to achieve that? There is also documentation for the extension at <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/civirules/en/latest/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.civicrm.org/civirules/en/latest/</a>.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>That could be a lot of alerts!  You could write something using <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/hooks/hook_civicrm_pre/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">hook_civicrm_pre</a> or hook_civicrm_post.  It might be more practical to create a report for an admin's dashboard than send a mail on every change.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I see how to create the report and have it send daily, weekly or monthly.  How can I get it to send after every change?
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Body: <p>If someone with access to the Civi dashboard makes a change to any contact information, is there a way to send an email alert to the site Administrators? </p>
  
  <p>Civi 5.2 
  WordPress 4.9</p>
  
  <p>***ADDITIONAL INFO ADDED 11/30 ****</p>
  
  <p>I am experimenting with CiviRules.  It looks promising, but I still haven't found a solution.  I am going to spell out more what I am trying to do and hopefully someone can clarify if Civirules can achieve that.  </p>
  
  <p>We have about 60 volunteers sorted in a group.  Occasionally a member of the staff will make a change to a volunteers contact information.  The Coordinator who oversees this group of volunteers wants to receive an email alert anytime a change is made to any contact within that group. </p>
  
  <p>It looks like we might be able to do that with CiviRules, but I am not yet seeing how to apply a rule to a specific group and how to get it to email a specific person when a change is made to that group.<br>
  I have the Linked Trigger set to "contact of any type is changed"
  I am not seeing anything that sounds like it fits in Linked Conditions or Linked Action, such as email this coordinator when a change is made.<br>
  I guess I am still not understanding how it works.  </p>
  
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Tags: <wordpress><contacts><civirules>
Title: Alert Admins when changes are made?
ThreadText: # Alert Admins when changes are made?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-11-29)
  
  If someone with access to the Civi dashboard makes a change to any contact information, is there a way to send an email alert to the site Administrators?
  
  Civi 5.2
  WordPress 4.9
  
  \*\*\*ADDITIONAL INFO ADDED 11/30 \*\*\*\*
  
  I am experimenting with CiviRules. It looks promising, but I still haven't found a solution. I am going to spell out more what I am trying to do and hopefully someone can clarify if Civirules can achieve that.
  
  We have about 60 volunteers sorted in a group. Occasionally a member of the staff will make a change to a volunteers contact information. The Coordinator who oversees this group of volunteers wants to receive an email alert anytime a change is made to any contact within that group.
  
  It looks like we might be able to do that with CiviRules, but I am not yet seeing how to apply a rule to a specific group and how to get it to email a specific person when a change is made to that group.  
  I have the Linked Trigger set to "contact of any type is changed"
  I am not seeing anything that sounds like it fits in Linked Conditions or Linked Action, such as email this coordinator when a change is made.  
  I guess I am still not understanding how it works.
  
  **Tags:** wordpress, contacts, civirules
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: have you looked at civirules?  
  
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  ## 4 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-12-03. Score: 2
  
  I am not sure I understand completely what you want to achieve, but if you want to send an email to checks@example.org every time a contact in group Special changes here is what you would have to do:
  
  * install the Email API action (<https://civicrm.org/extensions/e-mail-api>) which will also add the CiviRule action *Send Email*
  * add a new Rule with trigger *Contact of Any Type is Changed*
  * add condition *Contact is in Group* and select group Special
  * add an action *Send Email* and add email address checks@example.org
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: That does sound like what I am trying to do. I am try that as soon as I get a chance.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-11-30. Score: 0
  
  > Occasionally a member of the staff will make a change to a volunteers contact information.
  
  How about that make that change via a Profile and then you can set the Profile settings to notify someone, ie do this instead of having the changes made directly on the Contact Summary screen. I think that logic would get what you want, but understand it could be hard to get they 'staff' to remember to only change certain records via a Profile
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: will also depend what sort of information is being changed  
  > **username_0**: I like that idea and it would be simply.  Unfortunately the staff will be browsing the profiles from the dashboard though.  They will doing  all the editing back there.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-11-30. Score: 0
  
  You could possibly use the CiviRules extension (<https://civicrm.org/extensions/civirules>)( to achieve that? There is also documentation for the extension at <https://docs.civicrm.org/civirules/en/latest/>.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: thank you.  Additional information is added to my post.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2018-11-29. Score: 0
  
  That could be a lot of alerts! You could write something using [hook\_civicrm\_pre](https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/hooks/hook_civicrm_pre/) or hook\_civicrm\_post. It might be more practical to create a report for an admin's dashboard than send a mail on every change.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I see how to create the report and have it send daily, weekly or monthly.  How can I get it to send after every change?  
  
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