Alerts are what has moved in what already matters to you: the calls you've saved, the ones you're managing and the programmes you follow. That's the rule that keeps the noise out. A new call that fits you doesn't generate an alert – that shows up in Saved. Alerts are for what can't wait.
From two different places
Some are changes to the call. Every night we ask again for the record of everything still live and compare it with the one we had, and only what has consequences is compared: the title changes its accents every other week, and alerting you to that teaches you to ignore alerts.
- A date changes: the closing date moves, a date appears or disappears, the window opens or the way it is counted changes.
- The application window opens on a call that was closed.
- The rules change: a new notice in the official gazette – usually a correction or an extension – a new or amended document, a budget that goes up or down, or a change in the link to the rules or in the sede electrónica, the government's online filing portal, where the application is filed.
- A decision is out and the call runs again, which is what reaches you a year later if you follow the programme and not just that year's edition.
The others are reminders of your own dates: that something you follow is closing, that a decision is expected, that the window to file representations (alegaciones) is running out or that reporting is coming up. They're worked out every morning from the dates you already have in Grant management, and each milestone alerts you once: “closes in 7 days” goes out on one day, not on seven.
The bell and the screen
The bell in the top bar carries the number of unread ones and shows the latest when you press it. The Alerts screen has the same thing with room for it: the whole history, the switches and the button to mark them all as read. Each alert takes you to where the thing happened, and pressing it marks it as read.
What has been read is read for the whole organisation, not just for you. If a teammate has already seen it and moved the date, there's no need for it to come up for you as well: this is a shared workspace, not an inbox. That's why it says underneath who saw it.