Last Updated Feb 01, 2013 — Enterprise Agile Planning expert
Notifications 101
Enterprise Agile Planning
I often get asked about the notification capabilities in VersionOne. Here are a couple of the questions I always get asked:“Can my users get notifications within VersionOne?”“Can my users get email notifications?”“Subscriptions vs. Watch; what’s the difference?”The answer to the first two questions is simply a 'yes!' VersionOne gives you an inbox within the application as well as an area to provide your SMTP settings to enable email notifications. The last question requires us to dive a little bit deeper. Taking a look and understanding each of them individually should provide a holistic view on the differences between the two.Subscription:This method allows users to subscribe to an event for the various assets in VersionOne. These assets include: Backlog Items, Defects, Feature Groups, Issues, Requests, Tasks, Tests and Test Sets. For each of these assets the user has many different events to which they can subscribe in order to receive notifications. Below is an example of a user subscribing to an event.
Andre is a Product Owner for the Call Center project for his organization's VersionOne instance. Andre wants to know any time someone adds a new Backlog Item to the Call Center project. Andre can easily find out by creating a subscription. Andre is able to do this by navigating in the application following the steps below:My Home > Subscriptions > Notification Types (grid) > Expand the desired asset (Backlog Item) > Subscribe on the event (Backlog Item Created)The following image shows how Andre is able to set up this subscription for a specific project.
