Configure default notification preferences

Site admins can control the default notification preferences for new users. Then once users are on the platform, they can set their own preferences. Or if a notification isn't relevant to your platform because you don’t use the feature, you can hide its preferences.

Set default notification preferences for new users

You can decide which notifications users receive by default before they choose their own preferences. To set defaults:

2. Open the Notifications tab.

3. Under each activity, there are multiple notification types. You can turn them on or off individually, or Select/Deselect All of them at once. See the Notification types and Activities tables below for definitions.

Open

Setting notifications on and off.

If you aren’t sure what to pick, select Revert to default settings above each notifications category to see our recommended settings for a standard platform.

Open

Reverting to the default settings for message alerts.

Show or hide preferences for all users

If your platform doesn’t use a feature (like the social feed), users don’t need to set notification preferences for activities related to it (like “Social feed activity”). You can hide the activity in the notification preferences panel so that they don’t have the option to set preferences for it at all.

To show or hide an activity:

2. Open the Notifications tab.

3. Turn on Display in user preferences to the right of the activity name to show it, or turn it off to hide it. See the Activities table below for definitions.

Definitions

Notification types

Activities