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Managing Community Follows and Notifications

You can choose to "follow" areas of the Community to help you:

  • Stay up-to-date with activity that interests you, including new content, replies to posts, and solutions
  • Get the most out of your Community membership

Following Content

In each area of the Community, the Follow button appears in the top right of the screen:

Click this button to follow the community board (for example, blog or forum) that you are currently browsing. When you click the button, the + icon changes to a check mark:

Managing Follows

To manage content that you follow:

  1. Make sure that you are signed into your Community account.
  2. In the top-right corner, click your avatar image.
  3. From the drop-down menu that appears, click My Settings.
  4. Select the Follows & Notifications tab. The Follows group provides a list of the content and places you follow.

  5. You can leave your follows as-is if you want to continue receiving activity notifications or choose to unfollow certain content. 

    To unfollow content, to the right of a content activity listing, click ... > Unfollow. 

Managing Your Notifications

To manage your notifications:

  1. Make sure that you are signed into your Community account.
  2. In the top-right corner, click your avatar image.
  3. From the drop-down menu that appears, click My Settings.
  4. Select the Follows & Notifications tab.
  5. To manage how and when you are notified about community activity, find the Email Notifications group. 

  6. When the Get Email Notifications setting is toggled on, the Receive email notifications when... group appears.

    You can edit each setting based on your preferences. You can choose between receiving notification emails immediately, receiving a daily digest, receiving a weekly digest, or never receiving a notification email.

Viewing Your Notifications

To view your notifications:

  1. Make sure that you are signed into your Community account.
  2. In the top-right corner, click the bell icon (). 

A list of notifications that you've received since you last checked your notifications appears.