I am trying to figure out how my users can subscribe to certain lists. In general, they all have read privileges for the top-level Team Site. There is a list called "Announcements", which they can all see.
They should be able to subscribe to this list by selecting the list, then clicking the "Alert Me" icon in the ribbon. When they click that icon, a 2-item menu drops down, containing "Set Alert on this item" and "Manage my alerts".
Strangely, "Set Alert on this item" is disabled, but not "Manage my alerts". They can go into "Manage my alerts", click "Add Alert", click the "Announcements" radio button, click Next, configure the alert, and click OK. They now have that alert.
So the question is, why can somebody set an alert the "long" way, but not simply click the "Set Alert on this item" button?
The aim is to give this permission to all users, more precisely to the "All_Users" group, which contains, as expected, all users.
Any ideas?
Thanks...
Ron Mittelman