Subscribing to an Item

Interacting with Your Portal 2-23 Figure 2–9 My Notification Portlet Example If the notification item subject includes parentheses, such as Account Info, the item is a Portal Smart Link. To personalize the My Notifications Portlet:

1. In the My Notifications portlet header, click Personalize.

2. In the Display Name field, enter the name that you want to appear in the portlet

header. The default is My Notifications.

3. Choose whether to Show All Notification Items in the portlet, or to Limit the List

to a specified number of notifications. The default is 10. There is no maximum limit, but you may start to experience performance issues if the number of notifications displayed in your portlet is too large.

4. Choose Show Subscription Notifications.

The My Notifications portlet shown in Figure 2–9 is set up to show all three types of notifications: Subscription, Expiry, and Approval.

5. Select whether to Display Notification Type Icons for notifications listed in the

portlet. When the My Notifications portlet is set up to show more than one type of notification Subscription, Expiry, Approval, the Type icons can help you distinguish between these different types.

6. Select whether to Display Notification Status for notifications listed in the portlet.

The subscription status values include: Table 2–4 Subscription Notification Status Values Status Description Item Deleted An item to which you subscribe was deleted. Item Expired An item to which you subscribe has expired. Item Updated An item to which you subscribed was updated. Note that updates include actual changes to items for example, additional text added to a file, and also changes in item versioning. If you set an item to be the current version, this is considered an item update for subscriptions. New Item A new item was added to a page to which you subscribe. New Page A new sub-page was added to a page to which you subscribe. Note that notifications are not sent for updates to a sub-page. New Portlet A new portlet was added to a page to which you subscribe.