The Streams Panel, located in the bottom left corner of the client, is a panel that displays your new notifications which helps you react faster to important updates in your daily work in IFS Applications. The notifications are pushed from the server and you get an indication when you have new notifications in your panel by a red mark with a number showing how many new notifications there are. The panel is opened by clicking on the Streams icon, or by pressing Ctrl + F4 keys on your keyboard.
There are five types of Streams notifications:
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Notifications are pushed from the server to the Streams panel.
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Click on the Streams icon in the bottom left corner or press Ctrl + F4 keys on your keyboard to open the Streams panel.
Figure 1: Streams icon
The five types of notifications are indicated by different colors: Blue - Tasks, Green - Subscriptions, Orange - IFS Talk, Purple - Events, Red - Expiring Subscriptions. The panel can be changed in size by dragging the splitter between the Streams panel and Shortcuts/Navigator to expand its height, or the Navigator splitter to expand its width.
Figure 2: Streams panel with its notification types
The notifications have different information depending on which type it is and what information that has been entered when creating e.g. a Task sent to you. Common for all notifications is that they contain a title, information about the change, who made the change and when, and a user picture of the person who made the change (if available), created the Task or Task Scribble.
Actions that can be performed from a notification:
If a new notification appears while you have the Streams panel open, you will get the indicator in the Streams icon and by clicking on this you will get to the top of the Streams panel if it is not already at the top otherwise it will close the panel. The new notification count will be cleared in both instances.
Figure 3: New notification in the Streams panel
When you click anywhere inside a specific notification the color of the title will change from blue to black to indicate that it has been read.
If you see the warning icon below on your Streams icon it means that there is no connection with the server and new notifications cannot be pushed, contact your system administrator if the problem persists. You can still view new notifications by opening the Streams panel.
Figure 4: No notifications will be pushed to the Streams panel, click on the icon to manually refresh the panel
If you right mouse button click on a notification the context menu will open and you have the following options in it:
Figure 5: Context Menu in the Streams panel
You can view all your received notifications in My Administration/Streams/Notifications. The notifications you have removed from the Streams panel are also shown in this page. This page is by default cleaned up once a month but this interval can be changed by your system administrator.
Figure 6: Notifications page in My Administration
From this page you can navigate to the source objects, change if the notifications should be shown as Read/Unread or Visibility in the Streams panel and perform Cleanup via the context menu: