Notification Items
Every notification in the panel is built the same way, whatever its type. This page walks through a single item: what each part of it shows, what happens when you click it, and the actions it carries.
Fields
Every item has the same anatomy, whatever its type: the type's icon on the left, the type label and the time on the top line, then the title and the message. The type also sets the item's color, so the icon, the label, the unread dot, and the edge stripe of a Mention are all one color, and those of an Anomaly another.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Edge stripe | A thin colored bar on the item's left edge, shown only while it is unread. It disappears when the notification is read. |
| Type icon | The type's icon inside a tinted circle. Hovering the item swaps it for the checkbox that selects the item for bulk mark as read; while the item is selected, the checkbox stays in its place. |
| Type label | The subject of the notification, as a small uppercase label. See Types below. |
| Unread dot | A small colored dot next to the date, shown only while the notification is unread. |
| Date | When the event happened, shortened to suit how recent it is: the time for today, yesterday, a weekday, or a date. For the exact timestamp, hover the action. |
| Title | A short bold headline for the event, such as the flow name or the anomaly's table and datastore. Kept to one line. |
| Message | A summary of what happened, including the related entity, shown in a bordered box under the title. A notification sent by a flow keeps the formatting its author wrote, so headings, bold text, lists, and links arrive rendered; every other type shows plain text. A long message is truncated with a fade, and a control below it expands the full text. collapses it again. |
Once read, the whole item dims, so unread entries stand out at a glance even on the All tab.
Interacting with a Notification
An item responds to the mouse in two ways: clicking it opens what it refers to, and hovering it reveals its actions.
Clicking
Click anywhere on a notification to go to what it refers to. Three things happen at once:
- The panel closes and the platform navigates to the linked page.
- If the notification was unread, it is marked as read automatically and the unread count on the bell updates right away.
- Any selection you had made is cleared.
Depending on the notification's type, clicking takes a different action: a mention drops you into the comment thread, an operation opens the datastore's activity, a flow opens the execution. Each page under Types states what its click does.
A link inside the message is the one exception. Clicking it opens that link in a new tab and nothing else happens: the panel stays open, and the notification keeps its unread state. Only a click on the notification itself, outside a link, marks it as read.
Note
Navigation is not held up by the read acknowledgement, so a slow network never delays opening the page you asked for.
Hovering
Hovering a notification reveals the action icons in the top-right corner of the item, and swaps the type icon for the selection checkbox.
| Icon | Description |
|---|---|
| Received | Hover to see the exact timestamp of the event. Informational only. |
| Mark as read | Marks an unread notification as read. Shown on unread items. |
| Mark as unread | Returns a read notification to the unread list. Shown on items you have already read. |
| View flow execution | Opens the flow execution detail page. Shown only on notifications that came from a flow. |
| Open linked page | Opens the entity the notification refers to. |
Right-click for more actions
Right-click any notification for a context menu with the same read or unread action, plus Open in New Tab and Copy Link for the linked page. See Right Click Options for every option.
Types
Every notification belongs to one of these types. The type sets the item's icon and color, shapes how its title is built, and decides what clicking it does; each one has its own page with the full behavior. (An eighth type, System, is reserved for platform messages with no data asset behind them; it is rare enough in practice that it has no page of its own.)
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Mention | Someone tagged you in a comment on a container, check, template, anomaly, or partition. |
| Ownership | Something you own was updated, or ownership of it moved to you. |
| Anomaly | A flow or a partition scan surfaced an anomaly relevant to you. |
| Assignment | An anomaly you are assigned to was updated directly. |
| Operation | A Sync, Profile, Scan, or other operation finished. |
| Flow | A flow's in-app notification action reported its run. |