Notifications

A Guide to using Building Swell's Notification Feature!

Introduction

Internal notification tools are helpful for several reasons:

1. Notifications facilitate real-time communication among your team members, reducing the chances of miscommunication.
2. They will streamline workflows by alerting employees to important tasks, deadlines, and helping them prioritize their work.
3. They help centralize information by provide a single source for important updates, reducing the need to check multiple platforms, or have you running around the shop.
4. Real-time notifications allow for faster decision-making and quicker responses times.

Prerequisites

• Create an Order in Building Swell

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Head to Settings > Notifications

2. Select the Notifications you'd like to receive:

Detailed list of Notification Settings:

Channel

1. Email: When this is on, every in-app notification also gets sent to your inbox.

Events

1. Mentions: We’ll notify you when someone tags you with @ in a comment.
2. All comments: We’ll notify you whenever someone leaves a comment on any order.
3. Quality Control for orders: We’ll notify you when any order has a QC inspection ready to start.
4. Quality Control failed inspection: We’ll notify you when any order fails its QC inspection.
5. Rework events: We’ll notify you when rework is started on any order at any stage.
6. Documents: We’ll notify you when a document is uploaded to any order.
7. Planning Sandbox Worker Assignment: We’ll notify you when you are scheduled to a task in Planning Sandbox.
8. Dead Time Alerts: We’ll notify you when a worker has been inactive longer than the dead time threshold set by your team.

Deliveries

1. Delivery created: We’ll notify you when any new delivery is created.
2. Delivery in transit: We’ll notify you when any delivery is marked as in transit.
3. Delivery delivered: We’ll notify you when any delivery is marked as delivered.

Once the desired notifications have been switched on you should be good to go!

3. To leave a notification go to "Orders" > select an order > click the "Discussion" icon.

   

   
   
4. You can see any new notifications by clicking the "bell icon" in the top right corner.

Tips or Best Practices

• Your notifications will not automatically turn on. This will need to be manually switched on and the notification settings manually selected.
• Use the "@" symbol to tag a specific person in a comment.

Conclusion

The internal notification tool will help create a more connected and efficient workplace!

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