ClickHelp User Manual

Email Notifications Reference

You can set up different email notification settings on a portal and user levels.

Portal-Level E-mail Notifications Settings

These settings are located in SettingsAdministrationEmail Notifications

General Settings

Option
Description
Mentions
When enabled, users will receive a notification when another user mentions them.

Content Updates

Option
Description
Topic updates
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when another user updates a topic title or content.
Include content changes
When enabled, both Contributor and Power Reader watchers will have the version comparison snippet directly in the email body.

Workflow Changes

Option
Description
Status changes
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when another user updates the status of a topic or translation document.
Status self-changes
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when they update the status of a topic or translation document themselves.
Topic assignments
When enabled, users will receive a notification when another user assigns a topic or translation document to them.
Topic self-assignments
When enabled, users will receive a notification when they assign a topic or translation document to themselves.
Assignee change
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when an assignee of a topic or translation document is changed.

Comments

Option
Description
New comments
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when another user adds a new review comment in a topic they watch.
Resolved comments
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when another user resolves a review comment in a topic they watch.
Deleted comments
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when another user deletes a review comment in a topic they watch.

ToDos

Option
Description
New ToDos
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when another user adds a new ToDo item to a topic they watch.
Done ToDos
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when another user marks a ToDo item as done for a topic they watch.
Deleted ToDos
When enabled, watchers will receive a notification when another user deletes a ToDo item of a topic they watch.

User-Level E-mail Notifications Settings

These settings are located in the Email Notifications section of a user profile. The section contains all the settings listed above, which can be overridden on a user level by turning off the Use portal settings option.

Additionally, one extra personal notification setting is available:

Option
Description
Automatically watch topics
When enabled, a user automatically becomes a watcher of a topic or translation document they interact with: changes title or content, adds review comment, etc.

The Automatically watch topics setting is independent of portal-level notification settings and can be set up for each user individually regardless of the Use portal settings option state.