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== Notifications ==
 
== Notifications ==
Notifications act like emails. You can send a notification to specific
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Notifications act like emails in [[NATS4]]. You can choose to send notifications to all affiliates, or only to specific affiliates. [[NATS]] displays the number of new notifications at the top of every page in the affiliate page under "New Messages." Clicking on the number of new messages/notifications takes affiliates to their list of received and sent notifications, as does going to the "Messages" tab of [[New NATS4 Affiliate My Account|My Account]].
affiliates or all affiliates, and affiliates can read the notification
 
and then delete it. NATS displays the number of new notifications at the
 
top of every affiliate page. Clicking on the number of new
 
notifications, or going to the Messages tab of  
 
[[New NATS4 Affiliate My Account|My Account]], shows the
 
affiliate their list of received and sent notification.
 
  
To send a new notification, go to the News & Notifications Admin, click
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You can send a new notification through the News & Notifications Admin by clicking the "Send Notification" tab. Enter the subject and body of the notification, and choose what affiliate(s) you want to send the notification to-- you can either type in "ALL", or use the "Add" link to add affiliates. There is also a drop-down menu of "Quick Links," where you can choose to send your notification to all affiliates, admins, account reps, or site partners. Finally, you can choose to mark the notification as "severe", which will bold your notification in the affiliate's inbox.
the Send Notification tab, and enter your notification. In the Send To field
 
enter an affiliate's username or enter ALL to send the notification to
 
all affiliates. To bold a notification in the
 
affiliate's notification inbox, mark the Severe checkbox.
 
  
 
=== Automatic Notifications ===
 
=== Automatic Notifications ===
NATS automatically sends notifications to administrators about some
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NATS automatically sends notifications to administrators when certain errors occur (for example: failed postbacks and failed logins). You can view your notifications in the Messages tab of your My Account screen or in the Notifications tab of the News & Notifications Admin.
problems (for example: failed postbacks). You can view your
 
notifications in the Messages tab of your My Account screen or in the
 
Notifications tab of the News & Notifications Admin.
 
  
 
== See Also ==
 
== See Also ==

Revision as of 15:29, 7 July 2010

NATS 4
News and Notifications Admin
The News and Notifications Admin
Add News Item
Sending Messages
Members Admin
The Members Admin
View Member Details
Add Member
MySQL Auth
Mod Authn DB
Multisite Access
Member Logging
Member Password Retrieval
OpenID Connect
Mod Auth OpenIDC
ID Numbers

The new NATS4 News and Notifications Admin lets you send news items, such as updates, to all of your affiliates or notifications to specific affiliates. NATS also uses notifications to send you automatic notifications about any problems that may arise.

News

News items are received by all affiliates, and are displayed under the "News Items" tab. News items are displayed at the top of the Affiliate Overview page, and are labeled as "Announcements."

To create a News Item, go to the News & Notifications Admin, and click the "Add News Item" tab. Here, you will be able to choose when the news item/announcement is displayed by using a freeform time, which will be parsed by PHP's strtotime function. Once you have filled that out, you can enter your news item's subject and body. When finished, click "Create This News Item" to create your announcement.

Notifications

Notifications act like emails in NATS4. You can choose to send notifications to all affiliates, or only to specific affiliates. NATS displays the number of new notifications at the top of every page in the affiliate page under "New Messages." Clicking on the number of new messages/notifications takes affiliates to their list of received and sent notifications, as does going to the "Messages" tab of My Account.

You can send a new notification through the News & Notifications Admin by clicking the "Send Notification" tab. Enter the subject and body of the notification, and choose what affiliate(s) you want to send the notification to-- you can either type in "ALL", or use the "Add" link to add affiliates. There is also a drop-down menu of "Quick Links," where you can choose to send your notification to all affiliates, admins, account reps, or site partners. Finally, you can choose to mark the notification as "severe", which will bold your notification in the affiliate's inbox.

Automatic Notifications

NATS automatically sends notifications to administrators when certain errors occur (for example: failed postbacks and failed logins). You can view your notifications in the Messages tab of your My Account screen or in the Notifications tab of the News & Notifications Admin.

See Also

  • strtotime -- PHP's documentation on the function used to parse times in the News & Notifications Admin. Note: NATS's strtotime can take a special "NEVER" argument