Notifications under the bell: what creates them

The bell in the top bar holds four kinds of notification: announcements from Antenor, a notice that someone mentioned you in a comment, a notice of a new comment on a document whose comments you take part in, and a Read & understood request. Each kind is created by a specific event, described below. How to open and read the list is in Read notifications.

What creates a notification

Kind	Created when	Who gets it	Text in the list
Announcement from Antenor	Antenor publishes an announcement.	All users, or only users with the Admin level on the Super area row when Antenor addresses it to them.	The first line of the announcement.
Mentioned in a comment	Someone mentions you with @ in the comments of a document; see The comments panel.	Each person mentioned in that comment.	“You have been mentioned in a comment. Please follow the link to see it.”
New comment	Someone writes a comment on a document. The notice is created at once, for every comment; the module’s waiting time between comments applies only to the e-mail “Document Chat - New Comment”.	The other participants of the comments on the document’s current step, except the writer and the people mentioned in that comment, who get the notice above instead.	“You have an unread comment in the Chatbox. Please click the link to read it.”
Read & understood request	Someone invites you in the Read & understood dialog, or a new revision of a document is published while you had a request on the previous revision. The notification arrives about two minutes later. See The Read & understood dialog.	Each invited user. When a new revision is published, only users who are still active get a new request.	“You have been asked to read and accept the contents of the following document:”

Documents sent to you for approval and actions waiting for you never create a notification; they are counted on the dashboard; see The dashboard.

Language of a notification

Kind	Language
Announcement from Antenor	As Antenor wrote it.
Mentioned in a comment	Your own language.
New comment	The language of the person who wrote the comment.
Read & understood request	Your own language.

The list

Item	Rule
Order	The newest notification is at the top of the list.
Each line	Each line in the list shows the first line of the notification’s text.
Amount	The list loads 20 notifications at a time; more load as you scroll down the list.
New notifications	New notifications appear in the list without reloading the page.
Loading	The list shows “Loading…” while it loads.
Empty list	An empty list shows “No announcements”.
Removing a notification	A notification cannot be removed: the list has no delete control.

Opening a notification

Click a line in the list to open the notification in a dialog titled “Server announcement!”, with the full text and a Close button.

Kind	What the dialog contains
Announcement from Antenor	The full announcement.
Mentioned in a comment, New comment	The text and a link with the document’s title (“Unnamed Document” when the document has no title). The link opens the document, at that comment, in a new browser tab.
Read & understood request	The text and a link to the document. To confirm, use Accept contents in the document; see Confirm that you have read a document.

Read and opened

State	What sets it	What it changes
Read	Opening the bell marks every notification in the list as read.	The red number on the bell goes to zero.
Opened	Opening one notification from the list marks that notification as opened.	Only that notification. A Read & understood request stays open until you confirm it in the document.

Announcements that open by themselves

Kind	When it opens	When it stops
Large announcement from Antenor (an announcement Antenor has marked to open by itself)	By itself, in the dialog, the first time you load ABMS after it was published.	When you close it; it is then also marked as read.
Announcement for one module	Antenor can address an announcement to Competency, Equipment Management, Risk management, Substance register or Environmental aspects. It opens by itself when you open that module.	Once you have opened it. It is not listed under the bell.

Next step

Read notifications