I have a workflow that creates a button on a custom record and when the user presses the button an email is sent to the employee mentioned on that record. Is there a way to have an alert appear after the button is pressed? Sort of like a confirmation that your message was sent.

I don't think it can easily be done - but you can try the "show message" my only concern would be that the page reloads when you transition states - and so it wouldn't get triggered correctly.

thats what is happening. worth a try.

I'd be tempted to have the record check a box in my later state - and then have my first state uncheck it and show the message if it is checked and in view mode- but I'd also expect that to be buggy and have issues and occasionally show when it shouldn't. Better solution might be to BCC the current user.