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Subscribing to changes

When you are responsible for important documents that could be changed by others, you might want to be notified when changes occur of which you are not aware. You can subscribe to those documents to receive email messages when events occur that you are interested in. You may also subscribe to receive reminders for specific documents for which a system administrator has configured periodic reminders. If you have the Allow Management of Subscriptions for others privilege, you can add or remove subscriptions for other users.

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To subscribe to or unsubscribe from changes:

  1. In any navigation view, select the documents or project folders that you want to change subscriptions for. You may not select a non-project folder to subscribe to all of the documents that it contains.
  2. In the Document or Folder ribbon, in the Action group, click Change Subscription. The Change Subscription dialog box appears and lists the available events and reminders that you can subscribe to. The events to which you have already subscribed are selected.
  3. Select or clear events and reminders to change the subscriptions to the selected documents.
  4. Click OK to save your subscription changes.

To subscribe to or unsubscribe from changes:

  1. In any navigation view, select the documents that you want to change subscriptions for. You may not select a folder to subscribe to all of the documents that it contains.
  2. On the Document or Folder menu, select Change Subscription. The Change Subscription dialog box appears and lists the available events and reminders that you can subscribe to. The events to which you have already subscribed are selected.

    Note    Changes to the selected events in this list are not saved if you click the Subscribers button and will be reset when that dialog is closed. If you want to change the subscriptions of other users, select the subscribers in the next step first and then change the events to which they are subscribed.

  3. To change the subscriptions of other users:

    1. Click Subscribers. The Subscribers dialog box appears and lists all system users. By default, your name is selected to change only your subscription options.
    2. Select or clear user names to change their subscriptions to the selected items.
    3. Click OK to save your user selections and return to the events list.
  4. Select or clear events and reminders to change the subscriptions to the selected items for the users that you selected.

    Note    The checkboxes shown by this dialog can represent three states that indicate how many of the selected subscribers are subscribed to the corresponding event. The appearance of the different states is shown in the following figure.

    To view the names of the subscribers for a specific event:

  5. Click OK to save your subscription changes.

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Emailing documents

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Sending documents from PowerUser

Sending document shortcuts from the Meridian Web Client

Viewing and removing subscriptions