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Notifications

Audience: All users
Page Type: Reference
Phase: Cross-Phase
Duration: 5 minutes

What are Notifications?​

COS sends in-app notifications to keep you informed about actions that require your attention or updates that affect you. Notifications appear in the notification bell (🔔) in the top navigation bar.

Accessing Notifications​

  1. Click the 🔔 bell icon in the top right of the navigation bar
  2. A dropdown opens showing recent unread notifications
  3. Click View All to see the full notification history

Types of Notifications​

Approval Notifications​

EventWho Gets Notified
New OKR submitted for approvalApprover
OKR approvedOKR submitter
OKR sent back for revision/rejectedOKR submitter

Assessment Notifications​

EventWho Gets Notified
Assigned to a DMA sectionAssigned participant
Assigned to an Excellence Assessment sectionAssigned evaluator
Assessment publishedAll participants
Reminder sent by organizerSpecific participant

Task & Finding Notifications​

EventWho Gets Notified
Finding assigned to youAssignee
Finding status updatedReporter and assignee
Due date approaching (48 hours)Assignee

General Notifications​

EventWho Gets Notified
New user added to your unitUnit admin
Cycle approaching end dateAll users in cycle
New comment on a record you ownRecord owner

Notification Status​

  • Unread (bold): Notification not yet seen
  • Read: Notification has been opened
  • Dismissed: Manually marked as done

Marking as Read​

Click on any notification to mark it as read. To mark all as read, click Mark all as read in the notification dropdown.

Notification Preferences​

To customize which notifications you receive:

  1. Go to Account → Profile
  2. Open the Notifications tab
  3. Toggle on/off notification categories per your preferences
  4. Click Save

Notes​

  • Resource Analysis (VRIO) currently does not use a separate approval notification flow.
  • Check notifications daily for pending OKR actions and assignments.