Back to Basics Tuesday Tip #8: Subscriptions & Notifications

[DuaneM_iTalent]

This is the eighth post in our series dedicated to helping the amazing members of our community--both new members and seasoned veterans--learn and grow in how to best engage in the community! Each Tuesday, we feature new content that will help you best understand the community--from ranking and badges to profile avatars, from Super Users to blogging in the community. Our hope is that this information will help each of our community members grow in their experience with Power Platform, with the community, and with each other!

This Week: All About Subscriptions & Notifications

• Subscribing to a Category
• Subscribing to a Topic
• Subscribing to a Label
• Bookmarks
• Managing & Viewing your Subscriptions & Bookmarks
• A Note on Following Friends on Mobile

Subscriptions ensure that you receive automated messages about the most recent posts and replies. There are multiple ways you can subscribe to content and boards in the community! (Please note: if you have created an AAD (Azure Active Directory) account you won't be able to receive e-mail notifications.)

Subscribing to a Category 

When you're looking at the entire category, select from the Options drop down and choose Subscribe.

You can then choose to Subscribe to all of the boards or select only the boards you want to receive notifications. When you're satisfied with your choices, click Save.

Subscribing to a Topic

You can also subscribe to a single topic by clicking Subscribe from the Options drop down menu, while you are viewing the topic or in the General board overview, respectively.

Subscribing to a Label

1. You can find the labels at the bottom left of a post.
2. From a particular post with a label, click on the label to filter by that label.   

3. This opens a window containing a list of posts with the label you have selected. Click Subscribe.

Note: You can only subscribe to a label at the board level. If you subscribe to a label named 'Copilot' at board #1, it will not automatically subscribe you to an identically named label at board #2. You will have to subscribe twice, once at each board.

Bookmarks

Just like you can subscribe to topics and categories, you can also bookmark topics and boards from the same menus! Simply go to the Topic Options drop down menu to bookmark a topic or the Options drop down to bookmark a board.

The difference between subscribing and bookmarking is that subscriptions provide you with notifications, whereas bookmarks provide you a static way of easily accessing your favorite boards from the My subscriptions area.

Managing & Viewing Your Subscriptions & Bookmarks

To manage your subscriptions, click on your avatar and select My subscriptions from the drop-down menu.

From the Subscriptions & Notifications tab, you can manage your subscriptions, including your e-mail subscription options, your bookmarks, your notification settings, and your email notification format.

You can see a list of all your subscriptions and bookmarks and choose which ones to delete, either individually or in bulk, by checking multiple boxes.

 

A Note on Following Friends on Mobile

Adding someone as a friend or selecting Follow in the mobile view does not allow you to subscribe to their activity feed. You will merely be able to see your friends’ biography, other personal information, or online status, and send messages more quickly by choosing who to send the message to from a list, as opposed to having to search by username.

[EALEE_DBA]

Thanks Duane for  yet another amazing Back to Basics Tuesday Tip 👏

 

[Agnius]

Ironically, I am subscribed to the News & Announcements forums, but only receive a notification when a reply to a topic is posted, but not when the topic itself is posted.