# Evaluate Data Alert only on chosen days

**URL:** <https://community.holistics.io/t/evaluate-data-alert-only-on-chosen-days/1319>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Tags:** data-alerts\
**Created:** [December 5, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/evaluate-data-alert-only-on-chosen-days/1319 "2022-12-05T09:01:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![danielazheleva](https://community.holistics.io/user_avatar/community.holistics.io/danielazheleva/32/750_2.png) [@danielazheleva](https://community.holistics.io/u/danielazheleva)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/evaluate-data-alert-only-on-chosen-days/1319/1 "2022-12-05T09:01:42Z")

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We use data alerts to automate some messages into Slack for our operations team.

Currently it is not possible to chose which days the data alert is ran on. This means we send notifications every day, including weekends, whereas we’d only want to alert during the working days (Monday - Friday)

 ![Screenshot 2022-12-05 at 08.58.20](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/42b97f415cc24718b716fc5642235a2d905435c4.png)

It would be great if you could select which days the alert condition should be evaluated, and only send the alert on those days to reduce notifications over the weekend!

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**Author:** ![danielazheleva](https://community.holistics.io/user_avatar/community.holistics.io/danielazheleva/32/750_2.png) [@danielazheleva](https://community.holistics.io/u/danielazheleva)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/evaluate-data-alert-only-on-chosen-days/1319/2 "2022-12-05T09:31:21Z")

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I have been able to set up somewhat of a hack to work around this.

1. Create a custom dimension  
 ![Screenshot 2022-12-05 at 09.14.32](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/738dc2d9bcf29f08bbf566867817e37e64b1e014.png)

2. Include dimension in table  

3. Include condition in data alert  
 ![Screenshot 2022-12-05 at 09.18.22](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/2304636058d2b9bf12f83e8ca63f229eb302e782.png)

However it would be much easier to have this built into the alert itself!

Hope this helps someone with a similar use case in the mean time 🙂

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**Author:** ![Khai\_To](https://community.holistics.io/user_avatar/community.holistics.io/khai_to/32/128_2.png) [@Khai\_To](https://community.holistics.io/u/Khai_To)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/evaluate-data-alert-only-on-chosen-days/1319/3 "2022-12-06T08:09:55Z")

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Hi @danielazheleva ,

Instead of choosing daily option, have you checked the Option Weekly Frequency but de-selecting Saturday and Sunday?

 ![image](https://community.holistics.io/uploads/default/original/1X/e8d4c8e2b35b12b433f0833a4fb987edbba170f1.png)

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**Author:** ![danielazheleva](https://community.holistics.io/user_avatar/community.holistics.io/danielazheleva/32/750_2.png) [@danielazheleva](https://community.holistics.io/u/danielazheleva)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.holistics.io/t/evaluate-data-alert-only-on-chosen-days/1319/4 "2022-12-14T16:30:04Z")

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Thank you for your response - that is exactly what I was looking for. Totally my bad for not digging a bit deeper into the other options. Somehow I read `weekly` as once per week, which in hindsight, makes no sense!