Notifications
The bell in the top bar collects the updates that concern you — your leave being approved, a payslip waiting for your acknowledgement, a task assigned to you, a new company announcement. It is there on every page of the portal and of the admin app.
What appears in the bell
Notifications come from the same events as the work emails the app sends you, and are written at the same moment from the same message:
- the title is the email's subject line, and
- the line underneath is the first sentence of the email.
Both are in the language your emails arrive in — set on My Profile with the Email language selector (see Portal tour).
Some emails never appear in the bell:
- sign-in and account-security emails (password resets, password changes, two-factor changes, account set-up and invitation links) — those stay in your inbox only;
- emails about your workspace's subscription, which go to its administrators.
Your administrator can also switch off whole kinds of notifications for the workspace (for example, attendance reminders). When they do, the emails about those events can still arrive; only the bell entries stop.
Reading notifications
Click the bell to open the latest ten. Unread ones are highlighted and marked with a dot, and the number on the bell is how many you have not read yet (it is hidden when that is zero).
- Click a notification to open the page it is about — your leave history, your salary slips, your task list, the announcement. Opening it marks it as read.
- Mark all as read clears the count without opening anything.
- View all notifications opens the full list.
The bell checks for new notifications every minute, and again whenever you come back to the browser tab.
The dropdown works from the keyboard: Tab to the bell and press Enter, use the arrow keys to move between notifications, Enter to open one, and Esc to close the list.
The notifications page
View all notifications opens the full list (/portal/notifications, or
/admin/notifications when you are in the admin app). It has two tabs:
| Tab | Shows |
|---|---|
| All | Every notification you have, newest first, 20 per page |
| Unread | Only the ones you have not opened yet |
How long notifications are kept
Notifications are cleared automatically: ones you have read are removed 90 days after they arrived, and unread ones after 180 days. The emails in your inbox are not affected.
Notifications are per workspace
If you belong to more than one workspace, each has its own notifications. The bell shows only the workspace you are currently signed in to — switch workspaces to see the others.