Customizing the My Notifications portlet

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The My Notifications portlet displays all pending notifications for item approvals, item expiry, and item and page subscriptions for the currently logged in user.

In the portlet:

• If the subject includes a link, you can click it to display the details of the notification.

• If the notification is for an approval, click the subject to display the pending approval item details and to approve or reject the item.

• Click the page name to view the page that includes the item.

Note: You must have the appropriate privileges on the page to customize the My Notifications portlet.

To customize the My Notifications portlet:

1. In the My Notifications portlet header, click Customize.

2. In the Display Name field, enter the name that you want to appear in the portlet header. The default is My Notifications.

3. Choose whether to display all notification items in the portlet, or to limit the list to a specified number of notifications. The default is 10.

4. Choose which notification types (Approval Notifications, Expiry Notifications, and/or Subscription Notifications) to display in the portlet.

5. Select whether to display the notification type icon for notifications listed in the portlet.

6. Select whether to display the notification status for notifications listed in the portlet. The status values include:

   Status	Description
   About to Expire	For item expirations, the item is about to expire. The default expiry time frame is within 48 hours.
   Item Deleted	For subscriptions, the item to which you subscribed was deleted.
   Item Expired	For subscriptions, the item to which you subscribed has expired.
   Item Updated	For subscriptions, an item was updated on the page to which you subscribed. Note: Updates include actual changes to items (for example, additional text added to a file), and also changes in item versioning. If you set an item to be the current version, this is considered an item update for subscriptions.
   New Item	For subscriptions, a new item was added to the page to which you subscribed.
   New Page	For subscriptions, a new sub-page was added to the page to which you subscribed. Note: Notifications are not sent for updates to a sub-page.
   New Portlet	For subscriptions, a new portlet was added to the page to which you subscribed.
   New Tab	For subscriptions, a new tab was added to the page to which you subscribed.
   New Version	For subscriptions, the object to which you subscribed has a new version.
   Request Pending	For approvals, there is an approval request pending.

   Note: A subscription notification will always link to the current version of the item. If you update the current item, or set an existing version to the current version, the status will be "Item Updated" in the notification. An item added as a new version and as the current version will have the status "New Version" in the notification. If an item is the new version, but not the current version, and you update it, this will not initiate a subscription notification.

7. Click Apply.

   Note: If you selected Expiry Notifications and/or Subscription Notifications additional sections display on the page.

8. If you selected Expiry Notifications:

   • Choose whether to display expiry notification items from all page groups in the portlet, or to limit the list to a specified page group(s). Click to select a page group.
     

   • Choose whether to display expiry notification items from all user groups in the portlet, or to limit the list to a specified user group(s). Click to select a user group. Use a semicolon (;) as the separator between multiple groups.

9. If you selected Subscription Notifications:

   • Choose whether to display subscription notification items from all page groups in the portlet, or to limit the list to a specified page group(s). Click to select a page group.
     

   • Specify a time limit for the subscriptions displayed in the portlet if you would like to change the default setting (24 hours). Subscriptions older than the specified time limit are not displayed.
     
   • Specify a cache time period if you would like to change the default setting (60 minutes). This setting determines how frequently the subscriptions in the cache are updated. For example, if you specify 360 minutes, the cache will be updated once every 360 minutes. (The cache is refreshed automatically for certain events, such as when a user subscribes to an object.)

10. Click OK.

Note

• If the notification item subject includes parentheses, such as "(Account Info)", the item is a Portal Smart Link.

• Because Oracle Internet Directory (OID) can include multiple directory containers that use the same group names, the distinguished name (DN) is displayed next to any group that does not belong to the local Portal instance.

Related topics

Approving an item
Enabling approvals and notifications
Setting up an approval process for a page
Setting up an approval process for a page group
Setting up expiry notifications for a page group
Customizing the My Approval Status portlet

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