Notifications

Instant notifications help you keep track of the current status of your project or workspace. In the Requirements and Systems Portal, you can be notified about recent changes that concern (parts of) your project as well as finished background calculations.

To help you understand everything about notifications, this article is divided into two parts. First, we will explore the different types of notifications and then we will take a look at how to receive these notifications.

There are different types of notifications a user can receive:

➡ Notifications you receive if there is a change on a module (or part of a module) you are subscribed to:

Project

• Timeline updated

• Timeline task added

• Timeline task removed

Blocks

• New owner

• Owner changes

• Owner is deleted

• Vali created

• Vali value unit changed

• Date Vali deleted 

• Text Vali created

• Text Vali changed

• Text Vali deleted

• Matrix created

• Matrix deleted

• New Block child

• Moved Block child

• Block parent updated

• General fields changed

• Added to specification

• Removed from specification

• Change to linked verification (only Block owner receives these, not subscribers)

Vali

• Value or unit changed

Simulations

• Simulation input (Vali) changed

• Simulation variable added

• Simulation variable removed

• Simulation content changed

• Simulation error

• Simulation started

• Simulation Ended

Analyses

• Updated

• Deleted

Discussions

• Created

• Updated

• Status updated

• Comment added

• Comment deleted

• Deleted discussion

File

• Updated

• Deleted

• Version Added

• Version Deleted

Specifications

• Added Block

• Removed Block

• Deleted requirement

• New owner

• Owner changes

• Owner is deleted

Requirements

• Updates of any of the following: Specification ID, Group ID, Identifier, Text, Comment, Used Vali values.

• Parent Requirement gets updated

• Change to linked verification

• Deleted requirement

Requirements OSLC Importer

• Started

• Completed

• Failed

Verifications 

• Status Updated

• Method Updated

• New or deleted of the following: Test specification, Test report, Verification attachment

• Update in any of the following: Verification method, Verification status, Verification rule verified, Compliance statement and Compliance comment.

➡ Notifications you receive when there is a change in owned models. Read more about ownerships here.

All

• New owner

• Owner changes

• Owner is deleted

Blocks

• Vali created

• Vali value unit changed

• Date Vali deleted 

• Text Vali created

• Text Vali changed

• Text Vali deleted

• Matrix created 

• Matrix deleted

• New Block child

• Moved Block child

• Block parent updated

• General fields changed

• Added to specification

• Removed from specification

• Linked Requirement update of any of Specification ID, Group_ ID, Identifier, Text, Comment, Used Vali values.

Specifications

• New Requirement added

• Requirement update of any of Specification ID, Group ID, Identifier, Text, Comment, Used Vali values.

• Added Block

• Removed Block

• Deleted requirement

➡ Notifications you receive if there are changes in the entire project.

• Notifications of background calculations

Now that we have talked about the different types of notifications, let’s go ahead and explore the ways we can receive the notifications.

There are two ways of receiving the notifications: 

• Within the Requirements and Systems Portal

• Via email

In the following, we will show you how that works.

How to: Create Subscriptions

To subscribe to Blocks:

1. Go to the System Design Module

2. Right-click on the Block you wish to subscribe to

3. Choose "Subscribe"

To subscribe to other Objects:

1. In any Requirements and Systems Portal's Module, select the Vali/Requirement/Analysis/Simulation/Test that you wish to subscribe to

2. On the Actions column, click on Actions dropdown in the row of the object you want to activate the notification for, point to “Add” and press the bell symbol.

3. A bell icon in the identifier will confirmed you have subscribed to notifications.

How to: See notifications on Subscriptions

There are different possibilities to access the notifications of your Blocks and Specifications:

Notifications on Subscriptions

1. Go to Projects

2. Navigate to "Notifications"

3. You will see the latest changes of the subscriptions and Blocks that you own.

Read more about ownerships here.

Notifications on Subscriptions (Notification panel)

1. In any module, open the notifications panel by clicking on the bell symbol in the top right-hand corner of the Requirements and Systems Portal

2. Navigate to "Subscriptions"

3. You will see the latest changes in the subscriptions and Blocks that you own.

Read more about ownership here.

Notifications on Changes of Entire Project

If you wish to see all changes that have been made within your entire project, open the notifications panel on the top right-hand side of the Requirements and Systems Portal and go to "Activity":

Email Notifications

In addition to the in-app notifications, you can enable or disable email notifications. These emails include changes that concern your entire workspace.

1. Go to settings

2. Go to User settings, "Notifications"

3. Adjust the types of emails you want to receive and the frequency

You can choose the frequency of these emails and activate or deactivate email notifications on:

• Discussions

• Tasks / Milestones

• Subscriptions (which also include owned Blocks)

• Warnings

• Project Statistics

Background Calculations

Within the same site, you can also activate or deactivate pop-up notifications about background calculations for your workspace. They usually appear on the right-hand side within the Requirements and Systems Portal.

Enabling or disabling the pop-up notifications will apply to all projects in your workspace but only to your user account. It will not affect pop-up notifications from other users' accounts.