Notifications
The Istari Digital Platform can notify you about jobs and sharing activity through toasts (brief on-screen alerts) and a Notifications inbox in the sidebar.
The Notifications inbox appears in the sidebar when eventing is enabled for your deployment. Toast alerts appear when eventing is working — there is no separate toast toggle. Contact your IT administrator if the inbox or toasts are missing.
Before you start
| Feature | IT administrator setup | Your setup |
|---|---|---|
| Inbox page and sidebar badge | Eventing enabled | None — open Notifications in the sidebar |
| Toast alerts | Eventing enabled | None — toasts appear automatically |
Toasts can work without the inbox UI, but the summary toast's View inbox action only works when the inbox is enabled.
Enabling notifications for administrators
Notifications require backend eventing on the registry service. For deployment steps (NATS, secrets, and feature flags), see Istari Digital Platform installation in the IT Admin docs.
Notification inbox
When enabled by your administrator, Notifications appears in the primary sidebar with an unread badge (1–9, or 9+ when there are ten or more unread items).
Open the inbox
Click Notifications in the sidebar, or follow View inbox from a summary toast.
The page has two tabs:
- Inbox — active notifications (read and unread)
- Archive — notifications you have archived
Read a notification
Click a notification row to open the detail pane on the right.
- Clicking an unread notification marks it as read and opens the detail pane.
- Clicking a read notification opens the detail pane without changing its read state.
Unread items show a blue dot beside the row. The page header shows how many notifications are unread.
The detail pane shows a summary of the event and an Open Job, Open System, or Open File link that navigates directly to the related resource.
Select and bulk actions
Use the checkboxes beside each notification (or Select all at the top of the list) to select one or more items. The header shows how many are selected and offers:
- Mark as read — marks all selected unread items as read
- Archive (Inbox tab) — moves selected items to the Archive tab
- Restore (Archive tab) — returns selected items to the Inbox tab
- Clear selection — deselects all items
Load more
The inbox loads notifications in pages. Click Load more at the bottom of the list to fetch older items.
What appears in the inbox
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Resource access granted | Someone shared a file, model, or artifact with you |
| Job completed | A job you started finished successfully |
| Job failed | A job you started failed |
Canceled jobs do not appear in the inbox.
Notification toasts
Notification toasts appear in the bottom-right corner of the Istari Digital web app while you work on other pages. They do not require the inbox to be enabled, but they do require backend eventing.
What triggers a toast
| Event | Toast title |
|---|---|
| A job you triggered completes successfully | Job completed |
| A job you triggered fails | Job failed |
| Someone shares a file or model with you | File shared with you |
Toasts only appear for events that occur during your current browser session. Activity from before you loaded the page is suppressed.
Individual toasts
When three or fewer notifications arrive at once, each one appears as its own toast with:
- A title describing the event
- A description — the job identifier or the name of the person who shared and the resource name
- A View button that navigates directly to the job or resource
Individual toasts dismiss automatically after ten seconds.
Summary toast
When four or more notifications arrive at the same time, a single summary toast appears instead:
- Title: X new notifications
- View inbox — navigates to the notifications inbox (requires the inbox to be enabled by your administrator)
- Expand — shows the first three as individual toasts; if more remain above the threshold, a new summary appears for those
Summary toasts dismiss automatically after fifteen seconds.