Joel
TS Technical Admin
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Hello all,
On our strive to continually improve your TowersStreet experience, we're launching the beta of alert notifications for the forum
You should notice a new exclamation mark next to your username like this:
This little exclamation is your new alerts information, and will light up with a number next to it whenever you have any new 'notifications'.
Note: This will only work on the browser version of the forum (and not the mobile template, or Tapatalk etc), and it will only work currently whilst you are browsing the forum areas of the site. We will eventually expand the feature on your profile card across the site should our tests be successful.
When you click the notification, you should see a new popup white box like so:
This will show any activity that can be notified to you, including:
The list may grow depending on the test to see how badly it affects our server load
So as you can see I have a personal message notification and a topic reply and quote notification in the window. Clicking on these will obviously take you to the relevant post/message.
Now - you can see all of the alerts and manage them from the "Alerts" section in your profile, found by clicking "See More Alerts" and "Manage Alerts" in the popup window.
From here you can choose what to be alerted on and what not to be alerted on.
Also - when you reply to posts, or start a new topic, if you click the "Attachments and other options" link at the bottom of the compose window, you'll see a new option for adding alerts for that topic, like so:
Ticking this option will send you notifications if someone replies to your post or thread.
You can also select what type of notification you receive by clicking the "Notify" or "(Un)notify" button on a topic - this will show the options of having no notifications, email only, alert only, or email and alert.
Have a play and hopefully you'll get the gist of everything you need to use this feature to its best
We hope you enjoy this new feature, and please help us to test it out by utilising it on the forum too.
As ever we appreciate your feedback and questions about this new feature also, please post here and we'll do our best to help out.
Thanks all!
On our strive to continually improve your TowersStreet experience, we're launching the beta of alert notifications for the forum
You should notice a new exclamation mark next to your username like this:
This little exclamation is your new alerts information, and will light up with a number next to it whenever you have any new 'notifications'.
Note: This will only work on the browser version of the forum (and not the mobile template, or Tapatalk etc), and it will only work currently whilst you are browsing the forum areas of the site. We will eventually expand the feature on your profile card across the site should our tests be successful.
When you click the notification, you should see a new popup white box like so:
This will show any activity that can be notified to you, including:
- New personal messages
- When someone has quoted your post in a reply
- New topic notifications (if selected, opt-in explained in a moment)
- New reply notifications (if selected, opt-in explained in a moment)
- General messages from the team
The list may grow depending on the test to see how badly it affects our server load
So as you can see I have a personal message notification and a topic reply and quote notification in the window. Clicking on these will obviously take you to the relevant post/message.
Now - you can see all of the alerts and manage them from the "Alerts" section in your profile, found by clicking "See More Alerts" and "Manage Alerts" in the popup window.
From here you can choose what to be alerted on and what not to be alerted on.
Also - when you reply to posts, or start a new topic, if you click the "Attachments and other options" link at the bottom of the compose window, you'll see a new option for adding alerts for that topic, like so:
Ticking this option will send you notifications if someone replies to your post or thread.
You can also select what type of notification you receive by clicking the "Notify" or "(Un)notify" button on a topic - this will show the options of having no notifications, email only, alert only, or email and alert.
Have a play and hopefully you'll get the gist of everything you need to use this feature to its best
We hope you enjoy this new feature, and please help us to test it out by utilising it on the forum too.
As ever we appreciate your feedback and questions about this new feature also, please post here and we'll do our best to help out.
Thanks all!
