# Exploring notifications

> You can manage your notifications using the **My Notification** view from the
**Notifications** settings page.

You can manage your notifications using the **My Notification** view from the
**Notifications** settings page.

## Viewing and accessing notifications

You can access notifications through the **Notifications** panel only.

To access the **Notifications** panel, go to the top navigation bar and select the bell ![Bell icon](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/integration-service/integration-service-image-bell_icon_notifications_panel-929b74fd.webp) icon. The **Notifications** panel displays notifications ordered by date, in descending order. The **Notifications** panel displays notifications from newest to oldest.

To access a specific notification, select the desired notification frame.

### Filtering notifications

While you're in the **Notifications** panel, you can further filter the notifications, so you can view certain notifications first. To filter the notifications
that you receive in the **Notifications** panel:

1. Open the **Notifications** panel.
2. Select the **Service** dropdown and then select the service for which you want to view notifications.
3. Select the **Severity** dropdown and then select the severity of the notifications that you want to view.

## Viewing and accessing email notifications

When an
event that you are subscribed to takes place, an email notification is generated and
sent to the email address that you used to create your account. To access the email
notifications, check out the inbox of the email address where you know the
notifications will be sent.

You
can get the following information from the email:

* Read general information about the event that took place.
* Navigate to the corresponding service and tenant where the event took
  place.

To receive email notifications, your
Organization administrator need to enable the **Enable email notifications**
option from the **Preferences** menu, on the **Email configuratio**n
tab.

With **Actionable notifications** you
can quickly complete simple tasks directly from your inbox, without having to log in
to Action Center:

* Approve an action
* Reject an action
* Add comments to an
  action

You can also select **View full task in
Action Center** to access all the task details in Action Center.

To have Actionable notifications, you need to enable
this option when you [Create App Task](https://docs.uipath.html/).

Figure 1. Actionable notifications
  

![Actionable notifications](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/integration-service/integration-service-actionable-notifications-511781-e067b3dc.webp)

### Enabling email notifications for SMTP severs

If you have configured a custom SMTP server for your organization, then you receive email
notifications via the SMTP server. For information on configuring SMTP servers,
visit [Configuring email notifications using custom email
settings](https://docs.uipath.com/automation-cloud/automation-cloud/latest/admin-guide/configuring-system-email-notifications#using-custom-email-settings).

## Displaying only unread notifications

To display unread notifications, select the **Unread only** checkbox in the **Notifications** panel.

## Configuring default subscriptions

In the **Manage notification** view, there is a **Default** user group. You can
edit the group to change the default notification subscriptions. Here's how to
configure the default subscriptions for all the users inside your organization,
including for external AD groups.

1. In the organization **Preferences**, go to the Notification settings
   page.
2. Change the view from **My Notification** to **Manage
   Notification**.
3. Select the **Edit**
   ![edit](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/integration-service/integration-service-edit-367221-7dd83cf0.svg) icon inline with the **Default**
   user group.
4. Go to a service tab (**Actions**, for example), and choose the default
   events all users should be subscribed to. Also choose to hide or unhide some
   or all events for users in the organization.
   1. Select the visible ![visible](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/integration-service/integration-service-visible-371692-5b16a417.svg) icon next to an event to hide or unhide
      it from the users in the external group.
   2. Select the checkboxes under **Mandatory**. This subscribes users
      to an event, without the possibility of changing this setting.
   3. Select the checkboxes under Automation
      Cloud<sup>TM</sup> and **Email** to choose the
      default events the users are subscribed to.