Notifications for Employee Center

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Notifications for Employee Center

    The Notifications for Employee Center functionality enhances the user experience by providing a centralized notification system for tasks, activities, and important updates. This feature is accessible with the Employee Center plugin (snexsp) version 36.0 and requires the installation of the Notifications for Employee Center plugin (snexspnotifs) along with the Yokohama release version.

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    Key Features

    • Unified notifications experience available across different portals, excluding Now Mobile®.
    • Configurable notification content, including read/unread indicators and critical marking to highlight important messages.
    • Grouping of notifications for simultaneous delivery.
    • Notification header options featuring a bell icon with a count of notifications, customizable to show or hide counts.
    • Searchable notifications list with configurable filters such as Critical and Reminder.
    • Actions for notifications including Mark As Read, Remind me, and Clear notification.

    Key Outcomes

    With the Notifications for Employee Center, users can efficiently manage their notifications, ensuring they stay informed about relevant updates without being overwhelmed. The ability to mark notifications and configure settings according to user preference enhances usability and engagement within the Employee Center and other compatible portals.

    Notifications for Employee Center functionality provides a unified notifications experience on the portal for different tasks, activities, and other relevant information.

    Notifications for Employee Center functionality is available when you have the Employee Center plugin (sn_ex_sp) version 36.0, the Notifications for Employee Center plugin (sn_ex_sp_notifs), and the Yokohama release version installed.
    Note:
    Installation of the Notifications for Employee Center plugin (sn_ex_sp_notifs) is required to avail the functionality.
    Figure 1. Notifications for Employee Center
    Notifications icon is displayed on the Employee Center portal.
    Figure 2. Notifications list
    List of notifications displayed on the Employee Center portal.
    Notifications for Employee Center functionality is configurable for other portals too, like the Employee Center Pro Kiosk.
    Note:
    Notifications for Employee Center isn’t configurable on Now Mobile®.
    With notifications for Employee Center, you can:
    • Get default and configurable portal notification content.
    • Get read or unread and seen or unseen indicators.
    • Mark notifications critical to attract attention.
    • Group notifications while delivering multiple notifications at the same time.
    With the notifications header option, you can:
    • Get a bell icon on the portal header for tracking.
    • Get notification count displayed on the bell icon.
    • Turn on or off the display of the notification count.

    Turn off notifications altogether, if it isn’t relevant for you.

    Notifications actions

    Use Notifications filters to refine your search when you have a long list. The filters are configurable according to your requirements. The following are the default options:
    • Critical
    • Reminder

    Mark all your notifications read altogether with the Mark all as read option available on the global utility ellipses option.

    Notifications actions available for each notification are:
    • Mark As Read
    • Remind me
      • In 30 mins
      • In 1 hour
      • Next week
    • Clear notification

    For more information on configuring notifications, see Configure notifications for portal.

    Notifications in Content engagement for Employee Center Pro

    There are two predefined notifications available with Content engagement for Employee Center Pro version 1.3.
    • Notify author if news has a reaction: The author of a news article is notified when someone reacts to a published news article. The notifications are grouped together, if multiple reactions are received.
    • Notify author if news has a comment: The author of a news article is notified when someone comments on their published news article. The notifications are grouped together, if multiple comments are received.

    If the author clicks on a news article notification for an expired article, it won't be visible anymore.

    Notifications in the Browser Extension for Employee Center

    Get Notifications for Employee Center in the Browser Extension for Employee Center.

    You must have the Browser Extension for Employee Center plugin (sn_ex_brw_ext) version 1.0 installed to get the default Notifications configuration ECBE configuration.

    The Display mode available for the ECBE configuration is only Page view. For more information on Notifications configuration for your portal, see Configure notifications for portal.

    For more information on the field values in the portal notification configuration form, see Portal notification configuration form.