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- The "Alert Enabled?" checkbox must be checked (otherwise the email will not generate)
- An internal name for the email must be supplied (needed just to save the email alert)
- A subject line for the email must be entered (otherwise email will have 'No Subject'; emails that lack subjects sometimes gets automatically moved to the Spam folder, so this is not desired)
- Text for the body of the email must be entered (otherwise what is the point of this email alert)
- At least one recipient must be specified (otherwise no one will receive the email)
- A trigger mechanism has to be supplied (otherwise the email will never be sent)
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