Notification Updates Guide¶

April, 2025 - Recent Notification updates in ExoSense.

Overview¶

To expand features, functionality, and usability of ExoSense Notifications, a number of improvements have been made and are planned for how users manage their notifications within the application.

New Concepts¶

To provide greater flexibility, notifications are now supported with a feature called Notification Lists within ExoSense. Notification lists provide users the ability to not only specify what assets (or groups of assets), but also a filter of what they want to be notified for. Unlike before, users are now able to create multiple lists which provides the flexibility to create filters for different groups of assets.

Long term, Notification Lists will also have support for managed lists involving many users. Team leaders, managers, administrators may manage lists on behalf of customers and teams.

Rollout Plan¶

The initial rollout of Notification Lists was released in v2.47.0, replacing the legacy notification interface, while user's subscriptions were migrated to the new interface.

Additional features will be added in the future.

Changes¶

Layout¶

Notification Lists will be managed in a dedicated section of the ExoSense application, found in the side navigation. Here, users will find notification lists they own (private) or are a part of (future "managed" functionality).

Each list provides the ability to choose specific assets or entire groups. When a group is selected, all assets in the group (and child sub-groups) are considered a part of the list. This allows dynamic updates as assets are created or removed from the group.

The Filters on the list allows users to choose to which status rule event types, condition lifecycle, and condition policies to receive notifications for on the specific list. This enables different lists to serve different purposes.

User Profiles¶

User's will continue to manage their contact information and notification rules (time of day) in their user account profile, with some slight changes to the UI.

Changes to User Profile

Future¶

Exosite has collected user feedback and continues to look at ways to add and improve functionality that benefits users and to improve workflows and processes. Additional updates will be incorporated to improve the experience and options for notifications over time that may not be outlined here. Exosite will be planning out additional features that include concepts for:

Managed Lists

Users with the permission in their role will be able to create Notification Lists that include many users. This ensures a team is getting the right notifications and not requiring each user to manage themselves.

User Teams

This is a collection of users to simplify managed lists.

Escalations

This will provide the ability to create lists that will notify sets of users at a later time period and to continue to send notifications until the condition no longer exists. This description is using the term 'condition' loosely, as this functionality will apply to other scenarios outside of just conditions.