The follow button located at the page banner is a feature that allows community members can click on to subscribe to the project's updates.

The purpose of this feature is to make it easy for community users to stay up to date with your projects, by clicking on the follow button users will receive notification or updates whenever there's a news page or event page is published for that specific project.

🖼️Example

Example

Here is an example of a page that has 'Project Follow' enabled.


Enable Project Follow

Enable Project Follow

There are two ways to enable project follow:

  1. When creating a new project, the site administrators can enable project follow under the "Details" section of the set up wizard.
Enable project follow via set up wizard

Enable project follow via set up wizard

2. At the toolbar of your project page, go to Settings > Details - Project Page > Look for 'Project Follow' and click the checkbox to enable/disable.

Enable project follow via settings page

Enable project follow via settings page

🔔Notifications

Notifications

Community members would receive email notifications for the following:

  • Following a project - when a community member follows a project.
  • Unfollowing a project - when a community member unfollows a project.
  • Project news updates - when a new 'news' page is created with the “Automated Email Notification” box is checked.
  • Project event updates - when a new 'events' page is created with the “Automated Email Notification” box is checked.

📝NOTE: These emails are sent with a 3-hour delay before being sent out to your community members.


Please see email templates for the examples of these emails.