Notifications
What the platform will tell you about, where the record of it lives, and how to stop it from interrupting the machine in the back room.
What you are told about#
- A creative is waiting for approval. An advertiser wants to run on your screens. Nothing of theirs plays until you allow it, so this is the one that costs money to leave alone. It takes you to the review queue.
- A screen went dark. It stopped reporting for six minutes. Usually the shop's network, the power, or a television somebody switched off at the wall — rarely the screen itself. The screen is not playing is the list of things to check.
- A screen came back. The other half of the story. Off by default: it is good news, and good news at three in the morning is still a telephone lighting up.
Two different things#
The notification centre — the bell above Help Center — is the record. Everything that happened is in it, newest first, for ninety days, whether or not anybody was looking at the time. Opening one takes you to the thing it is about and marks it read; read is per person, so your colleague clearing theirs does not clear yours.
A pop-up on your desk is an interruption, and interruptions belong to a machine rather than to an account. The switches at the bottom of the centre are therefore per device: turning screens off on the laptop in the back office does not turn them off on the one you carry. They change what interrupts you — never what is written down.
Allow notifications link at the foot of the centre does the asking. If you have already refused, the browser remembers that and the link stops working: the block has to be lifted in the browser's own settings for this site. The centre fills up either way.