Need to use different icons for different notification groups

[vikasrohit]

As of now, we are using the same icon/image, which actually depicts only text/messaging notifications, for each notification group. Ideally, we should be using specific icons for each of the notification group.

fyi @gondzo @vic-topcoder @acshields @RishiRajSahu

[vic-georgiev]

By design, we have several different icons for notifications already designed (part of the original notifications project)

We have several existing icons right now. @acshields - let's review what type of notifications we have and if we need to expand the list of icons we currently have:

• New member added to project
• New post
• New project (diamond) - can be used as event
• Project in review/waiting (hourglass) - waiting/pause
• All ok (checkmark) - general report, all done
• Warning (triangle with exclamation mark) - warning, need attention.

notification icons.zip

[vikasrohit]

@vic-topcoder the current icons are mostly related to individual notification while when we send an email to the user, it uses icons for a group of notifications which are mostly 1:1 mapping with notification settings group (please note there are few exceptions to this though e.g. Phase changes are also listed in the project plan section of the email notification).

So, we might need different icons per category (e.g. how would you visual show a project plan change).

fyi @acshields @RishiRajSahu

[vic-georgiev]

For project team changes - I'm not sure if we want to send notifications when people join or leave the team at this point, especially when a lot of managers join a project team from Topcoder. Customers have a hard time figuring out why there are so many managers & copilots on their project.

We'll create a new table to map icons and notifications and will update the ticket further :)