Contriber - Notifications Tutorial

There are three different types of notifications in Contriber. You can use all of them at once OR none of them at all.

Workspace Notifications ...starts at slide 3These types of notifications appear on your workspace and indicate how many messages have been left in various flows.

Desktop Notifications ...starts at slide 14These types of notifications display on your desktop. These are helpful in situations when you are not currently viewing your workspace, but want to know immediately when new activity takes place.

Email Notifications ...starts at slide 21These types of notifications are sent to your email. You have the option of receiving email notifications instantly or daily.

Workspace Notifications

Blue Notification

This notification indicates that there is 1 unread message in the ‘Water Tests’ flow.

Red Notification

This notification indicates that there are 3 messages in the ‘Ground Tests’ flow. At least one of the messages has your name included.

@Red Notification

This notification indicates that there are 2 messages in the ‘Design 1’ flow. At least one of the messages has been addressed to you with an elevated priority.

A workspace showing the 3 different types of notifications.

**Useful tip** You can ‘hide’ Workspace notifications if they are distracting to you.

Then...

And presto! Workspace notifications are ‘hidden’

Click again to ‘un-hide’ the Workspace notifications.

The user can see the workspace notifications again!

Detailed look at Workspace notificationsIf a user leaves a message in a flow, all persons using that flow will receive a notification. It will either be Blue, Red, or @Red

Blue If a message is left in a flow, all persons using that flow will receive a blue notification.

Red If you type a person(s) name in the message, those person(s) will receive a red notification and everyone else using the flow will receive a blue notification.

For example: We’re meeting with Mike and Lisa tomorrow at 9am.

In this example, Mike and Lisa will receive red notifications and everyone else using the flow will receive blue notifications. This type of tagging can be used to indicate that a message is important, but not mission critical.

@Red If you type the @ symbol before a person(s) name in a message, those person(s) will receive an @Red notification and everyone else using the flow will receive a blue notification.

For example: @Mike and @Lisa, please meet with us tomorrow at 9am.

In this example, Mike and Lisa will receive @red notifications and everyone else using the flow will receive blue notifications. This type of tagging is useful when the message is very urgent for a particular person(s) to read.

Desktop Notifications

We use our computers for more than just Contriber :)

Often times we have many browser tabs open.

Or, we may be busy using other applications.

If you have opened Contriber, but are not currently viewing your workspace (perhaps you are watching a YouTube video), you can choose to be notified immediately when new activity occurs on your workspace(s) using ‘desktop notifications’.

desktop notifications will appear at the bottom-right of your screen for a few seconds and then disappear.

How do I enable desktop notifications?

Click on your avatar located at the bottom-left of your workspace.

1. 2. Next, click on Preferences.

Click the box next to Enable desktop notifications.

4.3. Make sure there is a checkmark in the box.

Congratulations! desktop notifications are now enabled. You’ll never miss important messages again.

To disable desktop notifications, click again on the box from step 4 so that the checkmark is removed.

Email Notifications

Depending on your circumstances, you may wish to receive notifications in your personal email inbox when activity takes place on your workspace(s).

→ We have two options in place for email notifications:

If Instantly is chosen, you will receive in your email inbox, notifications throughout the day as activity takes place on your workspace(s).

If Daily is chosen, you will receive in your email inbox at the end of the day, a list of all the unread messages from all your workspace(s).

Instantly Daily

How do I enable email notifications?

Click on your avatar located at the bottom-left of your workspace.

1. 2. Next, click on Preferences.

Click the down-arrow located at E-mail notifications.

4.3. The default setting is ‘Never’. Choose between Instantly and Daily. And then click

→ If Instantly is chosen, you will receive in your email inbox, notifications throughout the day as activity takes place on your workspace(s).

→ If Daily is chosen, you will receive in your email inbox at the end of the day, a list of all the unread messages from all your workspace(s).

Congratulations! Regardless of the option you chose (Instantly or Daily), you are now set up to receive email notifications.

Remember, you can always revert back to not receiving email notifications by choosing ‘Never’ in the email notifications box.