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Notifications

Every user has a personal notification center — the bell icon in the top navigation. It surfaces assignments, mentions, milestone reminders, review activity, share-link views, AI job results, and system announcements, and can optionally deliver them by email. You choose which kinds you receive.

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This is the user-facing notification inbox. To configure system-wide notification defaults, email templates, and announcements, see Notifications (Administration).

The notification bell​

Click the bell in the top navigation to open the notification center. A badge shows your unread count (displayed as 9+ above nine). The dropdown lists your 20 most recent notifications, newest first; unread items are highlighted.

Each notification links to the relevant place in the app — the assigned case in its run, the mentioned comment, the milestone, the generated test cases, and so on.

Actions​

From a notification's three-dot menu:

  • Mark as read / Mark as unread
  • Delete — removes the notification

From the header of the dropdown:

  • Mark all as read
  • Delete all — removes all your notifications (with confirmation)
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Hovering an unread notification for a moment automatically marks it read. You can also deep-link straight to the open notification center by appending ?openNotifications=true to any app URL.

Notification types​

TestPlanIt sends these kinds of notification. Each one can be switched off from your profile except the two marked always on; the full table of when each fires and who receives it is in Notifications (Administration).

  • Work assigned to me — a test case (or several) assigned to you in a run.
  • Session assigned to me — an exploratory session assigned to you.
  • Mentions in comments — you were @-mentioned on a case, run, session, milestone, or review.
  • Review requested / approved / changes requested / rejected / cancelled / reminders — activity on reviews you requested or were asked to give (see Review & Approval and the Reviews inbox).
  • Test run ready to complete — every case in a test run has been executed, and you are someone who can close it (see Test Runs).
  • Milestone due reminders — a milestone is due soon or overdue.
  • Share link viewed — someone opened a share link you own that has notify-on-view enabled.
  • AI steps derived — an AI step-derivation job you started has finished.
  • Integration needs re-authorization (always on) — an OAuth integration you connected must be reconnected.
  • Admin announcements (always on) — an admin broadcast.
  • What's New after an upgrade — release notes on your first visit after an upgrade.
  • New user registrations and AI budget alerts — sent to administrators only.

Delivery and live updates​

Notifications arrive in the bell in near-real time over a live server-sent events stream — there's no need to refresh. Depending on your preference (and whether email is configured for your deployment), they can also be delivered by email, either immediately or as a once-daily digest.

Notification preferences​

Two settings on your profile page, under Preferences, control notifications. The Notification Mode decides how you are reached:

ModeBehavior
Use Global SettingsInherit the system-wide default an administrator set.
NoneNo notifications.
In-App OnlyBell notifications only.
In-App + Email (Immediate)Bell plus an email per notification.
In-App + Email (Daily Digest)Bell plus a single daily summary email.
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The email options appear only when an email server is configured for your deployment.

What to notify me about (on the Notifications tab of your Notifications & Alerts page, below the notification mode) lists every notification type, grouped, each with a switch that is on by default. Switch a type off to stop it everywhere — bell, immediate email and daily digest — for you alone; each switch saves as soon as you flip it. Always on types cannot be switched off, administrator-only types appear only for administrators, and Reset to defaults turns everything back on. Types added in a future release are on automatically.