Your notifications provide you with real-time alerts about activity and updates that are important to you. Notifications give you quick access to everything important to you, so you can take action the moment it's needed. Never miss an important update again.

Notifications are real-time; if desired you can also receive Daily Digests and Weekly Digests.

Notification Channels

You can receive notifications in three channels:

• Browser / Activity Stream: Receive a pop-up if you are logged into your site, view a stream of all notifications received, and see a count of unread notifications.
• Email: Receive an email to the email address associated with your user profile
• Mobile App Push Notification: if you are using a mobile app, receive push notifications

Browser / Activity Stream

You can view your notifications in page format by going to My Activity Stream > Notifications.

You can track your notifications using the exclamation mark icon in the header at the top of your screen. When a new notification comes in, you are alerted in two ways.

1. An alert appears in the lower left corner of your screen with a summary of the notification you just received.
   
2. A number appears next to the exclamation mark, indicating that you have an unseen notification. If other notifications arrive, that number increments automatically to accurately reflect your new updates. The image below shows a user with seven new notifications.
   

No matter what page you are on or what you are doing in Communifire, your Notifications feed provides real-time updates about news and information that is important to you.

When you are ready to view and interact with your notifications, click the exclamation mark icon to view a drop-down list of recent updates. You can then select a given notification to see it in more detail, or click View All at the top or bottom of the list to leave the page you are on and open the Notifications page in your full window.

Email Notifications

Email notifications can be sent to the email address associated with your profile. Typically, email notifications follow the formatting below:

• From: Email address configured for your site in Email Settings
• To: Email address associated with your user profile
• Subject: Dynamic based on the notification being received
• Body: Summary of notification, often including a link to the specific activity
• Chat updates: Chat notifications default to 1 hour windows for private messages and this timeframe can be configured in System Properties

Mobile App Push Notifications

The Communifire Apple and Google Apps send push notifications for all notifications and chat messages you receive when you're offline. Communifire notifications appear on your device's lock screen and in the notification bar.

Types of Notifications

You are able to receive notifications for many activities, including when new content is added, when workflow items are assigned to you, or when someone tags you in a message.

Below is the full set of notifications that are available:

User Notifications

Users can be given the ability to customize the type notifications they receive if the Notifications widget has been added. This is not a default setting, and site administrators can add enable this by:

1. Going to Control Panel> System Properties> Enable EnableNotificationPreferences property.

2. Adding the Notifications widget to the default User Preferences page. Please see the Edit User Preferences Page for documentation on how to add the built-in widgets.

If enabled, users can change their preferences as outlined in the User Level Permissions documentation.

Global Notifications

Admin Generate a notification for everyone in your intranet by checking Send Notifications when creating a new Dynamic Property in Control Panel > System > Dynamic Properties > Add Dynamic Property.

Space Member Notifications

Related

How to Make an Announcement 

In this guide, you'll learn how to make announcements using a variety of methods to your entire intranet as well as to groups of people. Communifire has multiple options to send announcements to your entire intranet. Make an announcement to notifying the entire community about an upcoming system maintenance outage, introduce new employees in a certain department, or advertise open positions.

Disable or Enable Email Template 

Need to declutter your inbox? Disable an email template to turn that email notification off for everyone in your intranet.

See also: Custom Notifications for Content