Notifications - Overview

Notifications are messages sent to team members when certain events occur in a workspace. Those events include a document being added, a task updated, and a news item created. When a member of a workspace team does one of these things they can choose which workspace members to notify of their actions. If you are selected to be notified, PPM automatically sends you a notification.

In most cases, PPM notifications are sent explicitly, meaning that someone must choose to send a notification. Two common instances where automatic notifications are sent are when a team member is assigned to a workspace, and when a task is assigned to a team member. When either of these events occur, an automatic notification is sent to the person being assigned and the assigner cannot suppress the notifications.

PPM notifications are sent in two ways:

Email messages—By default, notifications are sent to the email address listed in your user profile. You can configure settings to help control email notifications. This is useful if you receive a large number of email notifications. To change your notification settings and the format of notification email you receive from PPM, see Configuring Notification Settings.
Notifications in PPM—Notifications are sent to you as items in the Notifications application. The Notifications application allows you to view and manage notifications received in PPM.

If a notification refers to an application item such as an issue, clicking the notification name opens the Item Details window for that item. Some notifications, such as Invitations, do not have an associated item.

To open the Notifications application, click the Notifications tab.

Note: If you do not see the tab, it may be hidden, or the application may not be available to you. For details about the global tabs, see Using Global Tabs.