The switches are right at the top of the Alerts screen, and they're yours, not the organisation's: the alert belongs to the organisation, but the inbox belongs to each person. Switching one off doesn't leave your teammates without it.
- Daily email digest. If you switch it off you still have the alerts in the bell and on the screen; what you stop getting is the email. It's set out in The daily email.
- Changes to what I follow. Dates, rules, openings and decisions on the calls you follow or manage.
- Deadline reminders. Closing dates, reporting, representations and expected decisions.
The preferences filter what you see, not what gets written. The alert is created for the organisation just the same and each person sees what they've asked to see: if you switch the deadlines off and a teammate doesn't, the reminder is still there for them.
How far ahead the closing alert goes
Below the switches you choose to be alerted to the closing date 3, 7 or 14 days ahead. This setting belongs to the organisation and is shared by the team: the reminder is one shared row, and it can't exist at fourteen days for one person and three for another. Changing it changes it for everyone. And whatever the number, the day before you're always alerted.
Some alerts are marked urgent – closes today or tomorrow, the window for representations is running out – and the preferences don't filter those: they arrive even if you have the deadline reminders switched off. What urgent doesn't mean is “right now”: they go out in the morning email like the rest, only first and with the subject line changed.
Saving with the alerts off doesn't do much
Saving a call is, above all, asking us to watch it. With changes and deadlines switched off at the same time, that watching gets nowhere, and the dashboard says so instead of keeping quiet: the bell stops showing the list and puts up “You don't have alerts turned on”, with a button to turn them on; and when you save a call a message pops up, “Saved, but you won't hear from us”, with the same button.
It isn't that nothing is happening: it's that nobody is telling you. That's why the bell doesn't say “Nothing new” when you have them switched off, which would be a lie.