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Notification center — Inbox

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Overview

The Inbox tab in Notification center is a container for the so-called unconditional notification events, i.e. those which are dispatched by email even if the user has turned off email notifications in the notification preferences (My settings > Notifications).  

Inbox tab

The Inbox tab in Notification center contains two types of notification events:

  • logged-in user's assignments 
  • logged-in user's @mentions

Note

Events in Inbox are sorted in reverse chronological order (from recent to earlier).

Notification events

A notification event as displayed in Inbox is presented in the picture:

notification_center_inbox.png

 

Legend to the illustration:

  1. New event marker — disappears after you click the item (thus "having acted" on the event)
  2. Name of the activity you have been assigned to
  3. Name of the project your assignment belongs to
  4. Date & time of assignment
  5. More actions pertaining to the tab as a whole
  6. More actions pertaining to the item alone

More actions

Each item in Inbox has a "More actions" button that opens into a menu. In the current version, the only action on the menu is Archive. It is used to send a notification event to Archive.

 

Archiving notifications

To archive a notification:

  1. Place the mouse pointer on the notification, thus highlighting its row.
  2. Click the More actions button (6 on the legend above).
  3. Select Archive on the menu that opens.

 

Unarchiving notifications

To unarchive a notification:

  1. Go to the Archive tab.
  2. Place the mouse pointer on the notification, thus highlighting its row.
  3. Click the More actions button.
  4. Select Unarchive on the menu that opens.

@mentions

 

Note

To learn about @mentions, see Mentioning users on project messageboards.

 

All incoming @mentions are aggregated on the Inbox tab for ease of reference. You can archive incoming @mentions and unarchive archived ones. You also have the opportunity to go directly to the message board where a @mention was posted.

 

notification_center_inbox_mentions.png

Legend to the illustration:

  1. Name of the activity you have been @mentioned at
  2. Name of the project
  3. Author of the message in which you were @mentioned
  4. Date & time of a @mention
  5. More actions pertaining to the tab as a whole
  6. More actions pertaining to the item alone

 

Note

@mentions on project message boards can be distinguished from those on activity message boards by the absence of activity name in the @mention source line (see picture above).

More actions for @-mentions

Each item in Inbox has a "More actions" button that opens into a menu. In the current version, the only action on the menu is Archive. It is used to send a notification event to Archive.

 

Archiving @mentions

To archive a @mention:

  1. Place the mouse pointer on the @mention, thus highlighting its row.
  2. Click the More actions button (6 on the legend above).
  3. Select Archive on the menu that opens.

 

Unarchiving @mentions

To unarchive a @mention:

  1. Go to the Archive tab.
  2. Place the mouse pointer on the @mention, thus highlighting its row.
  3. Click the More actions button.
  4. Select Unarchive on the menu that opens.

Accessing message board from Notifications

You can always access the message board where a @mention is made. 

To access the message board of a @mention:

  1. Access the Notifications screen, Inbox or Archive tab.
  2. Click anywhere on the row of the @mention you want to access the message board of (except for the Archive or Unarchive controls as described above, see Archiving/Unarchiving @mentions).  

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