Notifications

Checking Your Notifications

AVAILABLE TO: Administrators, Employees, and Customers

Do you want to receive notifications when a Pulse users posts an answer to one of your questions? Or be notified when someone asks a question about a particular Flare topic? Pulse provides users with a convenient way to sign up to receive email notifications about different system events and activities.

Notification Types

Pulse provides users with these notification types:

• Comments Notifies you when people comment on your posts.See Responding to Status Updates.
• Answers Notifies you when people post answers to your questions.See Posting Questions and Responding to Status Updates.
• Mentions Notifies you when people mention you in their posts.See Mentioning Documents, People, and Groups.
• Invites Notifies you when people invite you to join Pulse system feeds.To learn how to send invites to users, see Inviting People.
• Tasks Notifies you when you are assigned a task to complete. See Assigning Tasks.

How to Check Notifications

1. Open the Notifications app using one of these options:

   • Flare Output In a web browser, navigate to the Flare output. Then log in to the Pulse system (see Logging In to Pulse). Click the Community tab in the Flare output. Under the Your Apps list, click Notifications.

     

     Note The Your Apps list in the only available to members of the Administrators and Employees groups. It is not available to members of the Customers group.

     Note You can select which applications display in the Your Apps menu. See Customizing the Your Apps Menu.

   • Pulse Dashboard Log in to the Pulse dashboard (see Logging In to Pulse). Then click in the upper-right corner of the dashboard. In the drop-down message, click View All Notifications.

     

2. In the Notifications page, all of your notifications are listed. You have these options:

   • Click one of the hyperlinks in the notifications page to open the corresponding Pulse feed.

   • Click one of the buttons in the upper-right corner of the page to filter your notifications by type.

     

Signing Up for Email Notifications

When Pulse issues a notification, it appears in the Notifications app. If you would like Pulse to send you an email message as well, enable the appropriate setting in the Notifications tab on the Settings page of your profile. See Editing Your Profile.