Utilize the Inbox and set notifications

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Within Flow Production Tracking, you have an Inbox.

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The Inbox can be accessed via the Inbox tab in the global navigation menu.

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On the left hand side, you will see a list of notifications.

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You can filter your Inbox to show you only

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messages that are about specific updates, like publishes or notes,

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or you can hide read messages to show you only those messages you haven't yet got to.

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Your site may ask you if you would

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like to display desktop notifications for your Inbox.

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Choose OK, if you'd like to receive notifications in this way.

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Now, through the concept of following,

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you can receive notifications when new notes, versions, publishes, or other

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important changes are made on anything related to your work.

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These notifications will be sent to you via your Flow Production Tracking Inbox.

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To receive notifications,

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you need to be following what you want to be notified about.

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First,

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let's set the kind of notifications we will receive. From Account

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Settings, which is accessed by going to the User Profile

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thumbnail on the top right of the interface and selecting Account Settings,

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go to the My Follow Settings tab.

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From this tab,

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you can set up which information you

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will be subscribed to receive notifications about.

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I'm using Flow Production Tracking as Jordan.

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Jordan can choose to be notified if a note, version, or file is

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published to her site and linked to a task she is following.

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She can also choose to be notified if the assignment, bid, start date,

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due date, or status of a task she is following is updated.

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Being notified of changes to tasks directly in

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her Inbox will help Jordan to ensure she

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stays on top of any changes in her deadlines and task assignments in real time.

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Once Jordan has set which types of notifications she will receive,

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she can choose what she's going to get

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notifications about. To receive notifications on specific things,

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Jordan will need to follow those things directly.

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From Jordan's profile page,

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let's check out some of the tasks that she has been assigned to.

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Let's click into one of these tasks.

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We'll get more into navigating your site and reading pages in future videos.

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For now,

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all you need to know is that we're in a task detail

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page which gives us information about this task that Jordan has assigned to.

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By clicking on the follow button located on the top right of the page,

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Jordan is now following this task.

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Since Jordan has set up her notification

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settings and has started following this task,

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she will now receive a notification in her Inbox

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whenever there is an update to this task.

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Let's see this in action.

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Alexandra is a manager on Signal, the same project that Jordan is working on.

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She is updating the schedule and has decided that the

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due date for Jordan's task will need to change.

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Alexandra is going to change the due date of Jordan's task to next week.

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When Jordan logs into her site,

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she will now have a red notification over top of her Inbox to indicate there

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is a new message. When Jordan clicks into her Inbox and checks her unread message,

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she can see that she has been notified that the due date of her task has now changed.

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Being notified of changes directly to your Inbox will

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help you stay on top of your tasks.