Saved searches and email notifications🔔

Save your searches and receive email alerts when new related content is published. 

In this article: 

• 📌 1. Save a Search 

• 🔔 2. Be Notified of New Content on this Topic

  • Notification frequency 

  • Display of new content in the email depending on your subscription. 
    

•  📚3. My Searches and Notifications 

  • View and modify the result of my saved search/notification. 

  • [NEW ✨] Manage and Share Your Team’s Saved Searches

📌 1. Save a Search 

Save your keywords and active filters by clicking on the "Save my search" button under the search bar. When you click the "Save my search" button, you are invited to confirm: 

- "Name of my search": Name your search to easily find it in your user profile. 
- "Receive a notification": By activating this feature, you can choose how often to receive email notifications when new content on the topic is published. 

🔔 2. Be Notified of New Content on this Topic 

 Available frequency of receiving notifications: 

- Real-time: [news items only] an email notification is sent as soon as a news item on the topic is published. 
- Hourly: an email notification featuring the latest 15 pieces of content published in the past hour, based on your previously selected content type, is sent. If the alert is created at 3:05 PM, it will then be sent at 4:05 PM, 5:05 PM, etc.  
- Daily: an email notification featuring the latest 15 pieces of content published in the past hour, based on your previously selected content type, is sent. The full-day time period starts when the alert is created. 
- Weekly: an email notification featuring the latest 15 pieces of content published in the past hour, based on your previously selected content type, is sent. The week-long time period starts when the alert is created. 

 Click on the document to view it on AFP News. 

- Text feed subscription: The full text of the news item included in this subscription is displayed in the email notification. 

- Credit pack subscription: Only the headline and the first paragraph of the news item are included in the email. You can access the full content by logging into the platform from your computer.

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📚 3. My Searches and Notifications 

Under your name (in the top right corner of your screen), … 
In your user profile (in the top right corner of your screen), click on the "My searches and notifications" section: 

This page allows you to manage your searches and choose the email address for receiving your  notifications: 

• FLASHES and ALERTS: A predefined notification (disabled by default) allows you to receive real-time notifications of all FLASH and ALERT news items. 

• When the "Active notification" switch is enabled (in blue), you will receive email notifications on this topic. Click to deactivate. The type of content is specified below. 

• The "Manage search" button allows you to perform the following actions: launch the search, edit its name or notification settings (delivery frequency), and delete it (this action is permanent). Administrators can also copy it to other team members (see below).

View and modify the results of my saved search/notification: 

- VIEW: On the "My searches and notifications" page, click the title of a search to directly access the search results page. 

- EDIT: In the results of your saved search, you can modify the search criteria (keywords, filters, or facets). For example, if you add the language filter "Spanish" to an existing search, such as "cycling AND France" + Language = French, the "Save my search" button will reappear. You will then have the option to: 

  - Replace the existing search (edit it). 

  - Rename the search and create a new saved search. 

[NEW ✨] Manage and Share Your Team’s Saved Searches 

You can now view, edit, and share your team’s saved searches to save time and standardize monitoring within your organization. 

1. Copy a saved search to one or more users 

From the “Searches & Notifications” tab, hover over one of your saved searches, click on “Manage search” (button on the far right), then select “Copy search to”. 

You can then: 

• Assign this search by selecting one or more users in your organization. 

• Configure their associated email notifications. 

• Confirm by clicking “Copy search”. 

2. Access your team members’ saved searches 

From the new “Other users’ searches” section, you can: 

• View a team member’s saved searches by entering their name. 

• Enable or disable that user’s email notifications using the “Activate notification” switch. 

• Copy this search to one or more other users, as described above.