# Alerts on transaction group failure

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alerts-on-transaction-group-failure/18010>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 13, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alerts-on-transaction-group-failure/18010 "2018-05-13T08:40:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![roshanbhosale](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/roshanbhosale/32/4899_2.png) [@roshanbhosale](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/roshanbhosale)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alerts-on-transaction-group-failure/18010/1 "2018-05-13T08:40:21Z")

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Hi, I am Trying to generate alerts on transaction group failed to execute. The possible way I found is to use the handshake mechanism on failure to set the tag either zero or one .

Is it right way? Or is there any other way through achieve this.

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**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alerts-on-transaction-group-failure/18010/2 "2018-06-29T11:40:16Z")

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To set handshake values for alerting the user:  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Trigger+Options](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Trigger+Options)