How you create and manage alerts in your My Account has changed.

All of your existing alerts and any searches you have created and saved are unaffected by these changes and will continue to work as you have set them up.

We have updated the user interface for creating alerts in My Account to provide you with greater control over what you will be alerted about. These changes include more options for specific events. The guidance below takes you through the options in detail (see in particular Create and save an alert).

We have also standardised language from subscription to alert and updated the alert email format based on feedback received from you, our users.

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Overview

Setting up My Account allows you to:

• receive daily email alerts for updates to legislation that match your criteria;

• maintain a list of saved titles so that you can quickly access your most frequently required titles;

• maintain a list of saved searches so that you can quickly run a search again without having to set up the search criteria.

Sign up to My Account

To sign up for an account either click on the Sign up button in the boxed My Account section at the bottom right-hand side of the Homepage or Register for My Account in the blue ribbon at the very top right-hand side of any Register page.

Add your details to the form and click Sign Up.

Verify your account by following the prompts in the email sent to your nominated email address. The verification step is important as you will not receive any emails from your alerts until your My Account has been verified.

You are now ready to create alerts, save titles and save search queries to your My Account. You will need to be logged in to My Account to save your queries. If you are not logged in you will be prompted to log in when you try to save a search query.

Save titles to My Account

You can save links to your favourite titles in My Account.

When viewing a title click on the Save icon in the top right corner of the Version box:

Once the title has been saved to your My Account, the Save icon will turn green and a notification will appear on screen:

Saved titles will appear in alphabetical order on the right-hand side of your My Account page:

Click on the Delete icon to the right of a title to remove it from your Saved titles list.

Save search queries to My Account

You can save search queries to your My Account so that you can easily run the same search again.

When you perform a search on the website, click on the Save search button that appears in the top right of the Search results page:

You will be prompted to give that search query a name. Enter a name in the Search name field and click Save:

Saved searches will appear on the right-hand side of your My Account page, in alphabetical order as you have named them:

Click on the Delete icon to the right of the search query name to remove it from your Saved searches list.

Create and save an alert

What is an alert?

An alert allows you to receive notification about updates to legislation where those updates match your alert query. The email alert process runs overnight, and notifications are sent to your email daily. You will only receive an email if there has been a match against your alert query.

How to set up an alert

You can set up an alert by either:

• creating a new alert based on a title, directly from the title page; or

• creating a new alert on the My Account page.

Creating a new alert based on a title, directly from the title page

When viewing a title, click on the Alert icon in the top right corner of the Version box:

You will be prompted to give the alert a name. The Alert name field defaults to the title of the legislation you are viewing, which you can then edit.

If you would also like to also get alerts for any titles that are authorised by the title you have selected, click the checkbox under the Alert name field.

Once you have completed these steps, click Save:

Once the alert has been saved to your My Account, the Alert icon will turn green and a notification will appear on screen:

Clicking on a green Alert icon will take you to your My Account page, where you can manage the alert relating to that title.

Any Alerts you create will appear on the right-hand side of your My Account page, below Saved searches.

Creating a new alert on the My Account page

In your My Account, in the Alert management section, click on the Create new button to open the available options for alert queries:

Step 1: You will be prompted to give the alert a name in the Alert name field:

Step 2: In the Find and subscribe section, start building your alert query using the options below.

Search for, Search in and Search using options

You can use the Search for option to find matches to a particular search term, for example, “green parrot”.

You can then use the Search in option to choose where you want to look for that term. Select Name to limit this to titles of legislation only or Name and text to find the search term in both titles of legislation and contents of documents on the Register.

You can set how close a match is required by choosing options from the Search using drop-down:

• Contains phrase - this will find the text or phrase as shown exactly in the Search for field, for example “green parrot” but not “parrot green” or “green crested parrot”;

• At least one of the words - this will find any of the words in your phrase and will return a result even if all of the words in your phrase are not found, for example, any references to “green” or “parrot” even if both words do not appear in the document;

• Contains all the words - this will find all of the words but the words don’t need to be in the same order as they appear in the Search for field, for example, where both “green” and “parrot” appear but not necessarily together as a phrase, such as a document relating to the Australian green tree frog and the Australian king parrot.

If you do not want to search for any text in particular, leave the Search for field blank, and you can instead set up an alert using the Filters.

What filter options are there?

There are many additional filters that you can select to refine the alerts that you will receive. You should consider carefully how these filters will work together to ensure that you get the result you want.

Filter by Type

Click on the Type filter to expand the available options.

Using this filter, you can select whether to receive alerts for just principal or amending legislation and for as made (new) legislation or compilations (versions of the law with amendments incorporated). For example, if you are only interested in getting alerts when a Bill has been given Royal Assent and registered as a new Act, you should select the As Made checkbox (and also Act under the Collections filter). If you are not interested in amending legislation, you should check the Principal checkbox.

Filter by When this event occurs

Click on the When this event occurs filter to expand the available options.

You can select to be alerted when an event in the drop-down list occurs for a title that matches your alert criteria. If you do not apply any of the event filters, you will receive results for all events. If you select only some events, you will only receive alerts for those events.

For example, if you have set up an alert for the term “green parrot” in Name and text as a phrase, and then select the Amended event checkbox (as above), you will receive notification if any results from a search of “green parrot” are amended.

You may also choose to set up an alert with nothing in the Search for field, and just select an event. For example, if you would like to be alerted anytime there is a repeal of a title, you would select the Repealed event checkbox and not select any other options.

Filter by Collections

Click on the Collections filter to expand the available options.

Select one or more options. If you would only like results for a particular type of content, for example legislative instruments, then select the Legislative instrument checkbox (as below), which will limit results to the Legislative instruments collection.

Filter by For these titles

Click on the For these titles filter to expand the available options.

If you would like an alert for a particular title/s and anything authorised by those titles, you can search for the titles in the text field. Start typing part of the title and then select from the list of available titles.

As you type, titles will populate below.

Once selected, the title will appear as follows:

If you would also like to also get alerts for any titles that are authorised by the title you have selected, click the checkbox under the title.

Click on the Delete icon next to a title to remove it from the alert query.

Filter by Portfolio

Click on the Portfolio filter to expand the available options.

If you would like to limit your results to a particular portfolio, then select that portfolio from the drop-down menu. For example, if you would only like alerts for titles administered by the Attorney-General’s Department then select Attorney-General’s from the list (as below).

You can select more than one portfolio, but you must select them one at a time. Once selected, they will appear as follows.

Click on the Delete icon next to a portfolio to remove it from the alert query.

Step 3: Once you have built your alert query, click Save.

Any alerts you create will appear on the right-hand side of your My Account page, in alphabetical order.

View, edit and delete your alerts

To view, edit and/or delete alerts, click on the My Account button in the blue ribbon at the top of the Homepage. Click on the Edit icon , which will give you the options for building alert queries described above, or the Delete icon to delete an alert.