System and custom notification and delivery channel preferences in Next Experience

  • Release version: Washingtondc
  • Updated February 1, 2024
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  • You can manage and set your own notification preferences, including customized notifications and channels for receiving them.

    With notification preferences, you can control the system notifications and custom notifications that you receive and apply conditions to restrict notification delivery and choose how the notifications are delivered to you.

    System notifications

    System notifications alert you of record changes that might concern or interest you. You can be notified via email, SMS text messages, push notifications, or messaging applications.

    With system notifications, you can:
    • Search for a specific system notification in the list of your notifications to be able to set your preferences for that notification.
    • Set preferences at a global level.
    • Easily enable or disable all notifications or individual notifications.
    • Add or modify a notification schedule for individual delivery channels for each system notification.
    • Set a schedule for all notifications, individual system notifications, or delivery channels.

      For more information, see Apply notification conditions

    Custom notifications

    A custom notification is a system notification that you can subscribe to and customize by adding conditions.

    With custom notifications, you can:
    • Create and modify custom notifications, which are subscriptions to notifications that are important to you.
    • Set preferences at a global level.
    • Easily enable or disable all notifications or individual notifications.
    • Enable or disable notification channels.
    • Add or modify a notification schedule for individual delivery channels for each system notification.
    • Set a schedule for all notifications, individual system notifications, or delivery channels.

      For more information, see Apply notification conditions

    Note:

    Custom notifications for Next Experience do not support notifications that require a related affected record. For these notifications, you have to set the preference in the Core UI. For more information, see Setting notification preferences in Core UI.

    Note:
    Subscription-based notifications are not domain aware and cannot support domain-specific settings.

    Delivery Channels

    Delivery channels is a list of your chosen channels such as email, SMS, instant message and voice channels for receiving notifications.

    With Delivery Channels, you can:
    • Enable or disable a particular channel for receiving notifications.
    • Create, edit, or delete notification channels for instant messages, email, SMS, and voice.
      Note:
      Only admins can delete channels from the cmn_notif_device table.
    • Choose how notifications are delivered.
    • Set a schedule for the record in the channel and apply to the notifications you want to receive.