Saved searches and email notifications🔔

Saved searches and email notifications🔔

Written by Marie Abraham
Last update: Thursday, Jan 30, 2025

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. 

📌 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. 

[TIP 🌞] To save time, your last three saved searches appear under the search bar. Click on one of them to automatically restart the search and view the most recent content. 

🔔 2. Be Notified of New Content on this Topic 

[NEW ✨] For the media formats that interest you (news items, photos, videos, and/or infographics), choose to receive email notifications as frequently as it suits you. 

 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. 

 Only headlines appear in the notification when there are more than seven news items. 

 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.

📚 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. 

  • To edit the name of your search and its notification settings (send frequency), click the pencil icon on the right. 

  • The magnifying glass icon allows you to launch the search. 

  • To delete the search, click the cross on the right. This action is final. 

Suspend all alerts to disable email notifications of your saved searches. (Convenient during holidays, for example.) You can reactivate them at any time. 

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. 

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