Notifications

The sidebar carries a bell with a counter. It shows at a glance whether something is waiting for you — without you having to keep an eye on any list.

One click opens your personal inbox: your notifications, newest first, unread ones highlighted. Every entry says what it is about and takes you straight to the place where you can act.

Nothing gets lost

That is the difference from a briefly displayed message:

• Away for two weeks? You will find what happened when you come back.
• Switch browser or device? Same inbox.
• Not signed in at the time? You still find out.

The dashboard offers the same list as a tile — available to everyone from the start, and movable or removable like any other tile.

You only see what concerns you

A notification is not created at all for someone who has no access to the object in question. There is therefore no way to learn about the existence of an object through a notification that would otherwise stay hidden from you.

What you are notified about

Occasion	When
Pending decision	A change proposal was submitted for decision and you are one of the people affected. See Approval Modes.
Reminder	The decision is still open. It stops once you have answered.
Pending collective proposal	A whole scenario was submitted as one proposal. You get one notice for the package, not one per contained change.
Reminder about the collective proposal	The proposal is still open.
Watched object changed	You marked an object as watched — see Watching objects.
You were mentioned	Someone named you with @ in a field — see @-Mentions. The click takes you to that spot, not just to the object.
Linked object changed	An object linked to yours by a relationship has changed. Which relationships report this is configured per relationship type by your administration — see Relationship Types.
Deadline coming up	A date marked as a deadline on an object is approaching — see Deadlines and reminders.
Deadline missed	The deadline has passed. After the configured follow-up stages it goes quiet.

The pending-decision notice only arises in the Konsens and Konsent approval modes. Liberal and Highlander are write permissions, not an approval procedure — nobody is waiting for a decision there.

You decide how you are reached

Under Settings → Notifications you set, per kind:

• Mute — the kind stops being created at all, not even in the inbox.
• Email — whether an email goes out in addition to the inbox.
• Daily summary — one summary per day instead of many individual emails.

The inbox itself cannot be switched off: it is also the record of what was delivered. If you do not want a kind at all, mute it.

Everything appears in the language you have set — even if the notification was created days earlier and you have changed the language since.

When a name is missing

If a notification says “a role” instead of a name, the object could not be resolved at that moment — it was deleted, or the responsible service is unreachable. The entry stays readable; you never see a technical identifier.

For administrators

Email delivery is enabled per tenant and off by default. Without a mail server the inbox keeps working fully, nothing simply leaves the house. Above this sits the tenant’s delivery route under E-mail delivery: if it is set to “No e-mail delivery”, no notification is e-mailed even when it is switched on here — and every person sees a notice about it on their notifications page. You can also decide how much an email may reveal:

• Signal only — “something is waiting for you” plus a link, never an object name.
• Content for internal objects only (default) — for higher-classified objects the email falls back to the bare signal. A sent email cannot be recalled.
• Always with content.

With the notifications:admin permission there is also a delivery overview: who was informed when, about what and by which channel, and what failed. The message text is not stored and is therefore not visible there either.

How long notifications are kept

Notifications are deleted after 90 days — inbox entry and delivery record together, because they are the same row. The period is configurable per tenant (Settings → Retention); 0 means unlimited.

Unread entries expire too. That is deliberate: a notification left unread for three months is no longer an open item — and the underlying reason (a pending decision, say) lives on and reminds you again by itself.