navigating-the-ui.md

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Navigate the notifications UI	Azure DevOps	Go to and explore the notifications pages in Azure DevOps.	azure-devops-notifications	quarterly-update	wismythe	chcomley	chcomley	conceptual	<= azure-devops	06/22/2023

Access notification settings

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Learn about navigating the notifications user interface.

Note

This article applies to Azure DevOps, TFS 2017 Update 1 and later versions. For information on TFS 2017 and earlier versions, see Manage personal notifications and select the TFS 2015 content version.

Notifications settings

You can set notifications at the following levels:

• Personal
• Team
• Project
• Organization or collection (organization for the cloud and project collection for on-premises)

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Prerequisites

• Each user can manage their personal notifications
• To manage team notifications, you must be added as a team administrator or be a member of Project Administrators group
• To manage project-level notifications, you must be a member of the Project Administrators group
• To manage organization or collection-level notifications, you must be a member of the Project Collection Administrators group.

For more permission settings regarding notifications, see Permissions and groups, Notifications or alerts.

Open your personal notifications

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Open your :::image type="icon" source="../../media/icons/user-settings-gear.png" border="false"::: profile menu, and then choose Notifications or Notification settings.

:::image type="content" source="media/personal/user-notifications.png" alt-text="View your personal notifications page":::

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::: moniker range="< azure-devops" Open your profile menu and choose Notification settings. ::: moniker-end ::: moniker range=">= azure-devops-2019 < azure-devops" :::image type="content" source="media/personal/open-profile-menu-notifications-2020.png" alt-text="Select your profile menu, and Notification settings"::: ::: moniker-end

::: moniker range=">= azure-devops-2019 < azure-devops" :::image type="content" source="media/personal/user-notifications.png" alt-text="View personal notifications page"::: ::: moniker-end

For more information, see Manage your notifications

Open team or project level notifications

Enter the following URL to reach a team or project-level notifications page, replacing {organization} and {project} with your organization's and project's name.

https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_settings/notifications

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For more information, see Manage notifications for a team or group

Open Global notifications

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1. Enter the following URL to reach the organization-level notifications page, replacing OrganizationName with your organization's name.

   https://dev.azure.com/OrganizationName/_settings/notifications

   Or, choose :::image type="icon" source="../../media/icons/project-icon.png" border="false"::: Azure DevOps, and then choose Organization settings.

   :::image type="content" source="../../media/settings/open-org-settings-s172.png" alt-text="Open Organization settings":::

2. Choose Global notifications.

   :::image type="content" source="media/nav-ui/organization-notifications-s172.png" alt-text="Open Global Notifications":::

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Enter the following URL to reach the organization-level notifications page, replacing ServerName and CollectionName with your instance name.

1. Enter the following URL to reach the organization-level notifications page, replacing OrganizationName with your organization's name.

   http://ServerName/CollectionName/_settings/notifications?view=defaultSubscriptions

   Or, choose :::image type="icon" source="../../media/icons/project-icon.png" border="false"::: Azure DevOps, and then choose Collection settings.

   :::image type="content" source="../../media/settings/open-collection-settings-2020.png" alt-text="Open Collection settings":::

2. Choose Global Notifications.

   :::image type="content" source="media/nav-ui/collection-notifications-2020.png" alt-text="Select to open Global Notifications":::

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For more information, see Manage team and Global notifications

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