Notifications

Notifications keep you current on the approvals, reviews, mentions, and other events that involve you, without having to watch each item. Choose what reaches you in-app and by email, and tune your preferences so the signal stays useful.

This section covers in-app notifications and email delivery with preferences.

Why notifications matter in a controlled system

In a regulated ALM, work moves through defined states, reviews, and approval gates — and the people accountable for each step need to know the moment their attention is required. Notifications are how traceunified closes that loop without anyone having to poll the system. When a review names you as a participant, an approval reaches your signature, someone mentions you in a comment, or a compliance issue is assigned to you, a notification reaches you through the channel you’ve chosen.

The design goal is signal, not noise. Notifications come from a defined catalog of event types, grouped into seven categories — approvals, mentions, reviews, compliance, locks, reports, and training. Only events in that catalog notify you; ordinary item edits and suspect flags are not notification triggers. You can tune which of those event types reach you by email, and nothing in the catalog is forced on you: a category you switch off stays off, so check your preferences before relying on a notification as your only prompt.

In-app versus email

Two delivery channels serve different rhythms of work. The in-app Notification Center is the running record you triage while you’re in the tool — grouped, filterable, and cleared as you act. Email delivery reaches you when you’re not looking at traceunified, and its preferences let you decide which categories are worth an interruption and which can wait for a digest. Most teams keep approval requests and review assignments on email and leave lower-urgency activity to the in-app center.

What’s in this section

• In-app notifications — the Notification Center
• Email & preferences — what reaches your inbox
• Manage your notifications — a step-by-step walkthrough for triaging the center and tuning your email