Get Email Notifications for FileWave KB Updates
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You receivingmust ansign in to the FileWave KB to configure email onnotifications.
Configure notifications
Open the user menu in the header, select My Account, then open Notification Preferences. This page contains your global notification defaults and the content you explicitly watch or ignore:
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Noteswitches thatdefine which activity can generate mail, while the watch and ignore controls determine which books, chapters, and pages use those settings. Return to this page when you need to loginaudit toor theremove KBolder in order to use the Email notification system outlined in this article.
How
It’s now possible to be notified via email upon page changes within the KB! Alongside this you can also be notified upon new comments to pages. To provide some high-level user control, there’s a new “Notification Preferences” view which can be accessed via the “My Account” option in the header bar user dropdown:subscriptions.
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- Notify upon changes to pages I own
- Notify upon comments on pages I own
- Notify upon replies to my comments
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