Notification Button and Pane

Note the following about the Notification button and pane, and accessing notifications:

• The counter beside the Notification button (the exclamation mark icon) on the application toolbar indicates the number of messages that are waiting for you to read.

• Read messages are not included in the message number that appears beside the Notification button.

• If there is more than one message waiting to be read, then the Notification button appears in the color associated with the most important (highest priority) unread message.

• When there are zero messages, then the Notification button displays zero.

• If the Notification button is blinking, then you have at least one unread message with a severity of Urgent with Alert.

• The Notification button stops blinking after the message is read.

• The Notification button does not blink if there are messages waiting to be read with only a Normal, High, or Urgent severity.

• When you click Notification on the application toolbar, the notification pane opens showing a summary of each message.

• Unread messages appear first and are sorted by message date.

• Read messages appear next in italic text, and they are also sorted by message date.

• When you expand a notification by selecting it, the details appear for that message.