Agility Blue Update
What’s New?
Mention Users in Comments
A new dropdown list has been added to the Task Comment Rich Text Editor that allows you to select a User to mention within the body of the comment. When a User is selected, their first name will be placed at where the cursor is located and displayed as a unique tag.
The User selection drop down can be accessed quickly if a “@” is typed into the editor (provided it is not in the middle of a word). This is behavior similar to platforms that also use mentions, such as Twitter or Facebook.
The email a User receives because of a mention is the same email that is generated when a Task Comment is made, however, the subject and body clearly state that the User received the email because they were mentioned somewhere in the Task Comment.
If a User is mentioned in a Task Comment that they would have normally received without being mentioned (i.e., because of a Notification Rule or they are Subscribed to the Task), the “you have been mentioned” email will not be generated.
If a User is mentioned more than once in a Task Comment, they will only receive one email.
If the Project has notifications turned off, mentioned users will still receive emails.
Users that have notifications turned off will continue to not receive emails.
Subscribe to Task Updates
A new tab has been added to the Task panel that allows Users to add other Users as Subscribers to a given Task. Users will receive explicit email notifications for Tasks that they are Subscribed to when the Task is updated or a Comment is added regardless of their notification rules settings.
Subscribers can be added while a Task is being created (Underneath Forms), or after (via the Subscribers tab).
Tasks that are copied will inherit the subscribers from the original Task.
Projects that are copied will inherit the subscribers from the tasks copied from the original Project.
Project Templates that contain Tasks have a Subscribers tab for each Task where Default Subscribers can be added. Projects created from Project Templates will inherit the default Subscribers.
A new Subscribers column has been added to the list of Tasks that are copied when a Project is either used as a Template or copied directly from another Project. The column displays the number of Subscribers for each Task. If you hover your mouse over the number, the names of all of the subscribers will be displayed in a tooltip.
Subscribers can be added or removed from any copied Task by editing the Task prior to saving the Task or Project.
If the Project has notifications turned off, subscribed users will not receive emails.
Users that have notifications turned off will continue to not receive emails. If a user is subscribed to a Task and their notifications are turned off, the UI will provide visual feedback that the Subscriber is currently not receiving notifications.