Notifications

ARM Community supports the following notifications:

• Email - The system will generate an email to notify you about activities you've requested notifications for - such as about new blog posts your subscribed to. Checking the Email check box in the Settings > Notifications tab will enable the email notification.
• Live Alert - Live alerts are small slide-out notifications that alert you to activity you've requested notifications about. In the above example, checking the Live Alert check box in the Settings > Notifications tab will enable the slide-out notification that someone has posted a new blog post in a blog you're subscribed to. The slide-out notification contains live links to the activity.

Activity from subscriptions - These notifications include actions other members take in relation to the blogs, forum threads, galleries, or wikis you're subscribed to, including:

• Blog posts in blogs to which you are subscribed
• Comments on blog posts to which you are subscribed
• Replies to a thread I'm subscribed to
• Creates threads in forums to which you are subscribed
• Comments on ideas to which you are subscribed
• Status changes on ideas to which you are subscribed
• Comments on media files to which you are subscribed
• New media in galleries of which you are an owner
• Comments on wiki pages to which you are subscribed
• Updates a wiki page to which you are subscribed

Activity from your network - These notifications include actions other members take in relation to you, for example following or mentioning, including:

• Follows me
• Approves my friendship request
• Requests my friendship
• New group invitation
• New group memberships not added by you
• Membership request in groups to which you are an owner
• Mentions my groups
• Mentions me
• Sends me a private message or replies to my private message

Activity related to content you write - These notifications include actions other members take in relation to your content, for example replying to your forum question/discussion or liking your content. The notifications include:

• Achievements awarded to you
• Comments on content that I comment on
• Comments on content I write
• Replies you created awaiting moderation
• Threads you created awaiting moderation
• Replies to a question or discussion I have replied to or suggested an answer to
• Suggests an answer to my question
• Verifies a reply as an answer to my question
• Forums requiring moderation
• Vote updates on ideas you create
• Likes content I write
• Rates content I write

When a notification is unread, a count of unread notifications is displayed in a bubble above the queue ("Notifications") icon, as well as in the browser title bar. Viewing the notification in the queue marks the notification as read and decreases the unread count.