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Edit Watch Settings for a File

This article helps you understand how to edit watch settings on a file.

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Right-click on the file and select 'Watch > Edit Settings' to edit the watch configuration for activities performed on selected files.

This option will only appear for files where 'Start Watching' is already enabled.

This will open a layered page with the title 'Alert Settings'.

Click on the below links to access their detailed help:

Below is a description of the available fields:

Basic Details

'Watch all revisions' / 'Watch this revision' / 'Watch latest revision' - Select a single option to decide how watching should work for the selected file.

Watch all revisions - To enable watching all the revisions for the document reference of a file. This option is selected by default.

Watch this revision - To enable watching only the selected file revision.

Watch latest revision - To enable watching the latest file revision only. If a new version is published, watching would stop for the previous version and start for the latest revision automatically.


Notification Frequency

Instant Notification - To enable instant notifications for activities performed by other users on the selected file.

Instant notification will appear as a browser notification popup on your screen, based on browser compatibility.

You can receive 'Watch Files' notifications as a browser notification popup, based on browser compatibility. Browser notification is currently supported in 'Microsoft Edge' (Version 15 & above) as well as the latest versions of 'Google Chrome', 'Mozilla Firefox' and 'Apple Safari'.

a. For all supported browsers, a prompt will appear asking you to grant permissions for getting notifications from within the browser once you are successfully logged in on Asite.

b. Clicking on a watch notification will take you to its relevant screen within Asite.

c. Each such browser notification popup will have a visibility period of 5 seconds. Based on your response, such a prompt may or may not reappear the next time you log in on Asite. For activities performed in batches, there will be a single instant notification per batch activity.

Alternately, instant notifications can also be accessed by clicking the icon at the top right of the screen once you are logged in on Asite.

To clear all notifications, click the 'Clear All' link available at the top right side to clear all notifications. Notifications once cleared cannot be retrieved back.

Email Notification - To enable email notifications for activities performed by other users on the selected file, based on the frequency defined for activities configured.

Frequency - To set the email notification for activities configured at a defined frequency, immediately or daily. In case you are selecting 'Daily' frequency, you will get an option to select a specific time for receiving notifications from the available dropdown.


Activities

Select All - Select all available activities for watch notifications on selected files.

Files

Revision Upload - To receive notifications regarding the upload of revisions on selected files.

File Download - To receive notifications regarding downloading of selected files.

Status Change - To receive notifications regarding status changes on selected files.

Discussions - To receive notifications regarding discussions created on selected files.

Sharing / Edits

Distribution - To receive notifications regarding the distribution of selected files.

File Linking - To receive notifications regarding the linking of selected files.

Edit Attributes - To receive notifications regarding attributes edited on selected files.

Actions

Deactivate File - To receive notifications regarding the deactivation of selected files.

Reactivate File - To receive notifications regarding the reactivation of any deactivated files in selected files.

Clear Task - To receive notifications regarding cleared tasks on selected files.

Deactivate Task - To receive notifications regarding the deactivation of tasks in selected files.

Reactivate Task - To receive notifications regarding the reactivation of any deactivated tasks in selected files.

Once required changes are made, click on the 'Update' button to apply those changes.


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