In the bell menu, can we highlight notifications that haven't yet been clicked?

[David N.]

Recently moved from another forum software to Invision and I love it for the most part. 

I do however miss the behavior of the bell / Notifications pop-up menu and want to see if there's a way to implement it in my Invision Community board: 

If I had for example 3 notifications, the bell would have the number 3 and show 3 highlighted notifications in the pop-up menu. If I then clicked one of the notification that took me to a new post or a new private message, or if somehow I read the corresponding post or private message, then that specific notification was no longer highlighted, and the bell would show the number 2 with only 2 notifications highlighted. 

That behavior made it real easy to keep track of which items in the notification list had been visited and which ones were yet to click/visit. 

[Morrigan]

Last I checked when you open the menu it marks all as read...

And counting.....

[Marc Stridgen]

There would be no way in which to do that with the platform at present. The bell icon is not actually how many unread items you have under notifications, its how many notifications you have. Once you click therefore, you have see the notifications. The items themselves will remain unread. You can see which have been visited if you click on the list still, as you can see below

[David N.]

5 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

There would be no way in which to do that with the platform at present. The bell icon is not actually how many unread items you have under notifications, its how many notifications you have. Once you click therefore, you have see the notifications. The items themselves will remain unread. You can see which have been visited if you click on the list still, as you can see below

Thanks Marc for your answer. 

That's too bad. I really wish the Notifications could keep track of what you've visited and what you haven't, like on an email program for example. When I have multiple notifications and open the menu, and click one notification to visit the post, maybe type an answer, and then come back to the notification menu, I can no longer tell which notifications I've already clicked and which I haven't. 

Let's call it a feature request for a future version of the software! 😃

[Marc Stridgen]

2 minutes ago, Jamynee said:

When I have multiple notifications and open the menu, and click one notification to visit the post, maybe type an answer, and then come back to the notification menu, I can no longer tell which notifications I've already clicked and which I haven't. 

Im not sure I understand what you mean here, as it does exactly that. As you can see in my screenshot, only the number is removed. The top item there is still unread as I havent visited it

[David N.]

2 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Im not sure I understand what you mean here, as it does exactly that. As you can see in my screenshot, only the number is removed. The top item there is still unread as I havent visited it

Let me  clarify the behavior I wish, which is similar to mail apps such as yahoo mail, gmail, or the Mail app on a Mac computer. 

1. There are 5 new posts since you last visited and the bell shows a (5) badge.
2. You click the bell and see 5 highlighted notifications listed at the top for posts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. 
3. You click the link to visit post 3, reply to it, do a few other things etc...
4. The bell now shows a (4) badge.
5. You click the bell and see posts 1, 2, 4 and 5 highlighted, but 3 is now grayed out because you visited it. 

That way you can immediately identify visually that you've already processed the notification for post 3 but you still have to take care of posts 1, 2, 4 and 5. 

Does that make sense?

Edited April 29, 2022 by Jamynee

[Marc Stridgen]

It does, but thats not a feature of the platform at the present time unfortunately, as the number is for number of notifications you havent seen, rather than items you haven't read. As soon as you click on the notifications, you have seen you have notifications, so the number would disappear

Please do feel free to post this up within our suggestions are if you wish to see a change in the future.

[David N.]

Ok I understand, and I will post there. Thank you!

[David N.]

Ok so forget about the badge with the number. 

If we focus only on highlights, then right now as soon as you click one notification, they are all grayed out. 

But if you choose "See all notifications" then you get to a page that behaves exactly the way I want (unvisited notification links continue to remain highlighted the next time you visit that page). I wish the Notification pop-up menu would behave the same as that page, so that you can keep track of which notifications you've clicked and which you have not. 

[Marc Stridgen]

As mentioned. One is notifications, the other is the item itself. They are 2 different things you are looking at

[David N.]

2 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

As mentioned. One is notifications, the other is the item itself. They are 2 different things you are looking at

Thanks Marc for your patience. However I still don't understand the distinction? Both are called "Notifications". In the "Notifications" pop-up menu you click on View all notifications, and the Notification list opens in the main window rather than the pop-up menu, but to me they look the same so I would assume they are both the same list of Notifications? 

[Marc Stridgen]

The main list is a list of items you have been notified about. The dropdown is the notification itself.