If you subscribed to a blog or message board, or if someone sent you a private message, invitation, event reminder, or mentioned you in a post, you received a notification or request.
The notifications icon on your profile image shows your number of unread notifications or requests.
Figure 1: The number of notifications and requests are displayed above your profile image
To access notifications and requests, click the notifications icon on your user
profile image or open the Menu
()
and select My Account → Notifications under your user menu. The
Notifications List tab is selected by default. This is where all your
notifications appear. Click the Requests List tab to view and manage
your requests.
Figure 2: The *Notifications List* section displays all your notifications in a paginated list.
Managing Notifications
Notifications can pile up after some time, especially if you were away for a few days. The Management Bar gives you several ways to filter and sort your notifications.
The Filter and Order menu gives you the following options for viewing notifications:
- All: The default option. Displays both read and unread notifications.
- Unread: Displays notifications that haven’t been marked as read. Unread notifications are indicated with a blue border on the left-hand side of the notification.
- Read: Displays notifications that have been marked as read.
- Date: Order notifications by date.
By default, notifications are listed by date in descending order. To sort notifications by ascending order, click the up/down arrow icon in the management bar. Clicking the button again reverses the sort.
Each notification’s Actions menu
() lets you mark the notification as
read/unread, or delete the notification.
Managing Multiple Notifications
You can also manage multiple notifications at once. Select the checkbox next to notifications you want to manage and choose an option from the Management Bar. Select the checkbox above the notifications list to select all notifications on the current page. The Management Bar shows three actions for selected notifications:
- Mark as Read
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- Mark as Unread
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- Delete
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You can also select Mark all notifications as read in the Options menu
(). Note that this feature is only
available if at least one notification is unread. Clicking it marks all
notifications as read, selected or not.
Managing Requests
When you get a request, it appears in the Requests List tab. In each request’s
Actions menu
(), you can click Confirm to
accept, Ignore to decline, or Delete to remove the request.