Notifications

Notifications can be enabled on a per user basis, and the Portal supports several query and delivery methods.

Types of Notifications

There are two types of Portal notifications

  • Temporary: user will only be notified one time.
  • Persistent: only cleared through explicit user action.

Notification delivery

Methods by which the Portal will deliver notification data to the end user.

Basic delivery (default)

When a notification is recieved, the Portal will play a notification sound and alternate the page title between the new notification cound and the actual page title to get the user's attention.

When enabled by the user, the Portal will display received notifications using the operating system's build in notification mechanism.

Notification query

Methods the Portal will use to check for new notification. If new notifications are found, a delivery method is employed to deliver the message to the end user.

Polling Notifications (default)

Once every minute, the Portal will contact the server for new notification data.

When given permission by the client and enabled, the Portal will wait to be contacted by the server for notification data.

Note

Once push notification delivery is enabled, it cannot be disabled from within the Portal. The user must revoke the push notification permission in the browser themselves. This is a browser limitation.