PBworks User Manual

 

Selective Notifications

Note:  This feature is only enabled on premium workspaces. 

           If you're interested in this feature, but have questions about upgrading, please check out the Billing section of this manual.

 

On basic workspaces, notifications are sent in accordance with the user's notification preferences.  Users can set notifications from basic workspaces to be sent never, right away, or from a number of time interval selections.  These notifications are sent for all pages and file uploads, and users have no way to control which page edits are most important to them, and which ones are not.

 

In premium workspaces, even greater control is given to users about how notifications are sent.  Users of premium workspaces can set certain pages to be their favorites, and then set their notification preferences to only send them updates for only those favorite pages.

 

Here's how:

 

  1. First, you must set which pages are important to you by going to the page in view mode, and clicking the empty star immediately to the left of the page title (see below):

    Before clicking the star After clicking the star

     

  2. Now, the page will show up in your list of starred pages. To see this list, click your email address in the upper right corner of the workspace page.

     

  3. Your list of starred pages will be shown, along with the information available in your profile.

     

    Below that, you'll see the controls for the notification settings of the starred pages.

     

  4. Here, you can turn off notifcations on the workspace completely, by selecting "Don't send notifications."  You can also choose to send notifications for all changes, or just the starred pages.  Finally, even if you're only watching the starred pages, you can still be notified once when new pages or files are created on the workspace.