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Setting Up Notification

The system can send out e-mail notifications when projects or steps pass or fail, or when certain other events occur. This section describes how to configure e-mail notifications and how to modify the notification templates that control what e-mail notifications look like.

Notifications are sent to access groups, so design your access groups with notifications as well as security in mind.
Note: Notifications are always sent to groups, not individual users directly, but you can set up groups that contain only one user, if needed.
To create a notification event, select an access group for a notification property.

Whenever these properties have access groups selected, the system sends e-mail to the group members when the appropriate event occurs.

When a project includes another project as an inline project, the inlined project's start, pass, and fail notification settings are ignored, but any notification settings for its steps are honored. See Notification for Inlined Projects for details.

Before you can use notification, you must:

In addition, you can configure the notification e-mails that the system sends out by editing notification templates. See About Notification Templates.

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