HP Intelligent Management Center Standard Software Platform - Manual (Page 552)

These functions behave the same as alerts created in the Create Alerts
dialog box:
• IsAlertTriggered("AlertName") is true only for the records on which the
alert is triggered
• AlertMessage("AlertName") displays the message for a record when the
alert is true.
Because alerts are not field objects (you cannot drop them into the report),
alerts are represented differently from report fields in the Formula Workshop.
In the Functions tree, you'll see an Alerts heading where the functions
themselves appear. Available alerts are listed by name below that.
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Report Alerts 21
Working with Report Alerts