Alerts for External Lists

Question

I'm trying to turn on alerts for an external list (pointing to a table in SQL Server). When I do so, I get the following error "Alerts are not enabled on this list. Please contact the site administrator to ensure the backend supports alerts and the feature 'External System Events' is enabled on this site and try again."

How do I enable External System Events? Is there a code free solution to sending users alerts for changes to external tables?

Answer 1

How do I enable External System Events?

Unfortunately , you can't use alerts with external list, it's not supported . for more details check External List Limitations in SharePoint 2010/2013

Is there a code free solution to sending users alerts for changes to external tables?

Fortunately, In Sharepoint 2013 , you can use Event Receiver on external lists, so try to handle the alerts that you need at item added or updated events in your code , for more details check How to: Create external event receivers