7. NOTIFICATIONS
A notification is a one line note, usually created by the system, to inform members of events on the system that involve them. To see your notifications, return to HOMEBASE by typing ++ at any EIES® prompt. Then select Notifications. You are now at the NOTIFICATIONS WAITING LIST screen which looks like this:
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N 146 James Whitescarver (Jim,982) replied to your item C982.1CC56
N 192 Bob Czech (BMC,939) received your message M43 on 4/2/89 3:42:15 PM
N 214 Tanmay Kumar (Tommy,2628) added you to C1 Welcome
N 226 ( Coty ) Meet you at 6:00 tonight for dinner
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It’s a good idea to check your notifications when you first sign on to EIES®. Notifications come in many varieties. Three of the most common are:
RECEIPT/REPLY Notifies you that someone received an item you sent and/or replied to it.
CONFERENCE ADMISSION Informs you that you have been admitted into a private or public conference.
SALUTATION One-line greeting or brief message from another EIES® member. It takes much less time to send a salutation than it does to send mail.
To send a notification select Compose. EIES® asks: Enter a less than 70 character text Type a salutation. When you’re finished press <CR>. EIES® will now ask Members to send to > Type your EIES® name or number here. EIES® now tells you that your notification is being sent. Now if you select list Accepted notifications you will see the salutation you sent yourself.
7.1 Intake
The main purpose of a notification is to inform you of events that occur on the system. Once you see your list of waiting notifications they have served their purpose. You now need to remove them from your waiting list so that you will not have to repeatedly see them. Do this by selecting Intake. EIES® will ask items to intake (#,#,#) (<CR> for all)> Pressing <CR> will remove all the items on your waiting list or you can type the number of the item(s) you wish to remove from your waiting list. If you want to see these items again just choose list Accepted notifications.
7.2 Viewing Notifications
Each notification has additional information associated with it. For example, a notification informing you that you have been added to Conference 1, the Welcome conference will have the description of Conference 1 associated with it. A notification informing you that someone received a mail item you sent will have the mail item you sent associated with it.
To see the associated information select View full text. EIES® will ask: items to view (#,#,#) (<CR> for all)> Type the number of the notification that you would like to view. The screen will look like this:
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M 85 Daniel Berry (Coty,322) 4/ 7/92 10:52:10 AM 3 lines
KEYS: virtual classroom
TO: I Subject: thanks for the info
I greatly appreciated the information that you provided me with on the
Virtual Classroom. I hope to take a Management course online next
semester.
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