dbFM allows users to 'subscribe' to a document. Once subscribed they will be notified whenever any one of the following events occurs:
To help users manage their documents and notifications two additional tabs have been added to 'My Account'. They are 'My Documents' and 'My Subscriptions'. If you cannot see 'My Subscriptions' that indicates that the 'Allow Subscriptions' checkbox hasn't been ticked on the admin subscriptions page. Contact your administrator to enable subscriptions. The 'My Documents' page is initially sorted to show subscribed documents at the top of the page with unsubscribed documents below. Clicking on the column headers - 'Title', 'Created', 'Last Modified', 'Size' or 'Status' will re-sort the list appropriately.
Entries on the 'My Subscriptions' and 'My Documents' pages contain the following:
The email messages that are sent out when a notifiable event occurs are configurable by an admin user. Details on how to configure the emails are in the administrative options.
It is also possible to subscribe to a document from the File Manager by right clicking on a file to launch the context menu. The last menu option shows the word 'Subscribe' - unless you are already subscribed to the document in which case the option will show 'Unsubscribe'.