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Notifications

The bell in the header is where everything new gathers — changes in the data you watch, results you asked the Explorer to fetch in the background, things a colleague has shared with you, and replies to problems you have reported. The bell shows a count when something is waiting. You read what is new and open it where it lives; you do not act on it here.

The bell, and four tabs

Open the bell to see your notifications, grouped into four tabs by where they come from:

• Updates — results you asked for.
• Alerts — your alerts and their change reports.
• Shares — things a colleague has shared with you, or handed over to you.
• Bug reports — replies on problems you have reported.

Each tab shows a count of what is unseen, and the bell carries the total. Clicking a row opens wherever the thing lives — the portfolio, the results, the shared item, the report.

Updates

Two kinds of row, each saying which it is:

• A ready result — a background fetch you started, such as Fetch all, has finished. Opens the full set.
• A download that could not finish — opens the search, where you can see why and run it again.

Alerts have their own tab; see Alerts § The Alerts tab.

Shares

Two kinds of row:

• A share — a colleague has given you sight of a bookmark, portfolio, annotation, or view. Opens it, ready to read and run.
• A hand-over — a portfolio is now yours; you receive its change reports from now on. Opens the portfolio.

A share means "you can see this too"; a hand-over means "this is now yours".

Bug reports

A row appears here each time a report you filed changes status — for example, when it is fixed. The status reads in plain words, the same as on your reports themselves; opening a row shows the full reply. See reporting a problem.

Seen and unseen

Rows you have not opened stand out — a faint tint and a small dot — and the bell counts them. Opening a row marks it seen. Mark all as seen clears a tab's count without dismissing anything, so the notifications stay in the list; they are simply no longer new. A tab with nothing waiting reads as caught up.