Overview
Fieldwire features several key ways to notify users about tasks, so that everyone on your project stays in the loop and knows what their responsibilities are.
Notifications center on the web
Notification types
Real-time push notifications
If you assign a task to a user that also has Fieldwire installed on their mobile device, they will get an immediate notification that a new task has been assigned to them. As all of our tasks follow an ownership model, anyone who has created or been assigned a task will continue to get updates on its progress. For example: if you assign a task to a sub, and they mark it as complete, you will be notified of the update.
Email Notification
Same as the notifications above, only via email.
Note: You can adjust the email settings in your profile settings on the web.
Tip: Project Admins can adjust the email notifications everyone in the project receives in the project settings.
Task Email Notification
An email is triggered to all task watchers (except the author of the update) 5 minutes after a task is updated. However, the email will include all updates since it was first triggered - and these emails are limited to 1 per hour.
In contrast, the in-app notifications will be instant.
Task notification center on mobile
For information on our task notification center for mobile, please refer to this guide: "Introduction to Notifications".
Disabling task notifications on mobile
You can disable task notifications on mobile by navigating to your device's application settings, and choosing to disable all Fieldwire notifications on your device.
Note: You will still receive email notifications, though you can adjust which email notifications you receive from your Fieldwire profile settings on the web.
Task notification center on the web
For more information on our notification center for the web version of Fieldwire, please refer to this guide: "Introduction to Notifications".
The two options are:
- Enabling/disabling the "Send email when tasks are created or updated"
- Enabling/disabling the "Send email when plans have a new version or markups"
Task notification
A task notification will be sent when:
- Adding Messages on a task.
- Verifying/completing a task.
- Updating the assignee of a task.
- The task end date has arrived (these are sent at 6am in the project's timezone)
Notification will NOT be sent when:
- Photos / files / forms / crop plans are attached.
- Adjusting the category / location / start and end dates / manpower / cost / tags / watchers (directly from the task attributes section).
- The Notification would come through if these were updated via messages. Ex: adding ‘#tag’ or ‘@category’ as a message.
- Adding a checklist / marking off a checklist line item.
- Adding a related task
More information
- You can learn more about tasks in the article titled 'What is a task?'
- You can learn about how to make sure relevant people are notified by tagging people within tasks in the 'How do the "@" and "#" signs work?'