Maintain role and user notifications
Manager users in the rolecreators role can assign a document or folder change notification to a Viewer Viewers are users with Read-only access to documents. They can access documents and submit feedback to editors user or role.
Note: Change notifications are sent for changes to any of the following:
- Content
- Property (for example, a document name
- Documents (documents added or removed from a folder
Maintain role/user notifications
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Open Panviva Manager.
The Document Management window displays.
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Click Roles.
The Role Management window displays.
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You can now do one of the following:
Assign change notification to user
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Open Panviva Manager.
The Document Management window displays.
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Click Roles.
The Role Management window displays.
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Select the required user.
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Select Notifications from the Details & Actions menu.
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Click Add notification to user. The Document selector dialog box displays.
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Select the folder or document.
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Click Add document.
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Complete the following fields:
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Alert level
- Message
- The More > Messages menu selection displays the change notification.
- Alert
- The More > Messages menu selection displays the change notification
- A notification popup briefly displays
- The Panviva icon in the system tray pulsates
- Interruption
- The More > Messages menu selection displays the change notification
- A notification popup briefly displays
- The Panviva icon in the system tray pulsates
- A box displays in the Viewer window until the user clicks either read now or read later
- Message
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When message is sent
- At time of release
- Manually - The message is only sent when the author manually sends the message from the Document Management > Details & Actions > Notifications
- Off - No messages are sent until the author changes the notification setting
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Custom message (Optional)
- Type a message for each user/role using up to 160 characters.
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Email (Optional)
Select the frequency in which the user receives email notifications. Email is sent in addition to the 'Alert' above. It is not an either/or option.
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Click Add notification to user. The Notifications window redisplays.
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Select more folders or documents, as required.
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Click Save.
Assign a change notification to a role
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Open Panviva Manager.
The Document Management window displays.
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Click Roles.
The Role Management window displays.
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Select the required role.
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Select Details & Actions>Notifications from the menu.
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Click Add notification to role. The Document selector dialog box displays.
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Select the folder or document.
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Click Add document.
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Complete the following fields:
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Alert level
- Message
- The More > Messages menu selection displays the change notification.
- Alert
- The More > Messages menu selection displays the change notification
- A notification popup briefly displays
- The Panviva icon in the system tray pulsates
- Interruption
- The More > Messages menu selection displays the change notification
- A notification popup briefly displays
- The Panviva icon in the system tray pulsates
- A box displays in the Viewer window until the user clicks either read now or read later
- Message
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When message is sent
- At time of release
- Manually - The message is only sent when the author manually sends the message from the Document Management > Details & Actions > Notifications
- Off - No messages are sent until the author changes the notification setting
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Custom message (Optional)
- Type a message for each user/role using up to 160 characters.
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Email (Optional)
Select the frequency in which the users in that role receives email notifications. Email is sent in addition to the 'Alert' above. It is not an either/or option.
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Click Add notification to role. The Notifications window redisplays.
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Select more folders or documents, as required.
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Click Save.
Remove change notification from user
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Open Panviva Manager.
The Document Management window displays.
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Click Roles.
The Role Management window displays.
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Select the required user.
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Select Notifications from the Details & Actions menu.
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Select the document you want to remove.
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Click Remove notifications from user. The document or folder displays as Removed.
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Remove more folders or documents, as required.
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Click Save.
Remove notification from role
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Open Panviva Manager.
The Document Management window displays.
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Click Roles.
The Role Management window displays.
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Select the required role.
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Select Notifications from the Details & Actions menu.
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Select the document you want to remove.
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Click Remove notification from role. The document or folder displays as Removed.
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Remove more folders or documents, as required.
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Click Save.