How to Subscribe to Notifications
This guide shows you how to subscribe yourself or other users to notification templates and choose the delivery channel.
Prerequisites
- For self-subscription: a working AlloyScan account on the site.
- For admin-managed subscriptions: Administrator role on the site.
- The instance Email client (Admin Center > App management > Email) is configured if you intend to use the Email channel.
- The notification templates you want to subscribe to already exist on the site. Templates are managed by Site Administrators; see the Administration Guide for the per-site template workflow.
Steps
Subscribe yourself (own-level)
- Click the bell icon (🔔) in the application header to open the Notifications side panel.
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Click the gear icon inside the panel labeled Manage alert subscriptions.
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Pick the templates you want to subscribe to and select the delivery channel(s) — Email and/or Web browser.
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Save.
Note: Self-managed subscriptions take effect for the current user only. Administrators see and can edit the same records via the Admin Center entry point below.
Manage subscriptions for other users (admin-managed)
- Open Admin Center > Site Settings > Notifications > Subscriptions.
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Identify the user. Subscriptions are grouped by user name (
Name: <user> (Items: N)). Expand the row to see the user's individual subscriptions. -
Add or remove subscriptions for the user as needed, and pick the delivery channel for each:
- Email — delivered by the instance Email client.
- Web browser — surfaced inside AlloyScan via the bell icon.
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Save.
Important: A subscription with no delivery channel selected does not produce any notification. Confirm that at least one channel is selected per subscription.
Verify
- Trigger an event that the subscribed template covers — for example, complete a discovery scan that introduces a new device for a
New computer detectedsubscription. - For Email-channel subscriptions, check the recipient's inbox and confirm a row appears in Admin Center > Site Settings > Logs > Notifications with a
Sentstatus. - For Web browser-channel subscriptions, click the bell icon (🔔) and confirm the new entry appears in the Notifications side panel.
Note: If an expected email never arrives, check that the instance Email client is configured, the user has a working email address, the template is enabled, and the Notifications log does not show a delivery error.