Concept: Global Notifications Panel

The global notifications panel enables you to receive important updates about what needs your attention without having to navigate back to your email.

You can find the notifications panel on almost any page. The notifications:

Alert you of actions you need to take in Strategic Sourcing.

Contain contextual information and links that help you navigate to the appropriate page.

Notification types include:

Notification Types	Description
Team Chats Event Chats	In projects or contracts, teams are able to communicate in a chat window as well as directly mention a specific user. Users on the stakeholders list receive notifications for both team chats and event chats. When you receive notifications, the notifications panel: Distinguishes between project chats and contract chats in the chat type. Separates direct mentions (@mentions) from standard chat notifications.
Contract Approval State Changes	Strategic Sourcing notifies you of these state changes: Approval Requests Approval Rejections Contract Approved

Notification Types

Description

Team Chats

Event Chats

In projects or contracts, teams are able to communicate in a chat window as well as directly mention a specific user. Users on the stakeholders list receive notifications for both team chats and event chats.

When you receive notifications, the notifications panel:

Distinguishes between project chats and contract chats in the chat type.

Separates direct mentions (@mentions) from standard chat notifications.

Contract Approval State Changes

Strategic Sourcing notifies you of these state changes:

Approval Requests

Approval Rejections

Contract Approved

When accessing the notifications panel, consider:

Option	Description
Dismiss notifications.	You can dismiss individual notifications. Once you dismiss a notification, you can no longer view it.
Read notifications. Unread notifications.	New notifications are unread, indicated by the shade of the notification card. You can mark individual notifications as read or mark them all as read.
New notifications.	The notifications panel automatically loads new notifications. The notifications panel displays a red counter to indicate the number of new notifications.
Load previous notifications.	The notification panel limits the number of notifications displayed at a time. When you reach the limit, the notifications panel hides older notification cards. You can load previous notification cards to view them.