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Notifications in Atlas

Where Atlas notifications come from, what each action does, and why a notification can point at something that no longer exists.

Written by Eddie Lavandera

Notifications tell you when something Atlas was doing in the background has finished, such as a page that completed generating while you were elsewhere. Open them from the bell in the dashboard header, which shows an unread count as Notifications ({count} unread) when you have any.


Reading your notifications

The panel is headed Notifications. If there is nothing to show, it reads No notifications yet.

Each notification is timestamped relatively: Just now, {count}m ago, {count}h ago, Yesterday, {count}d ago.

Something still running shows In progress... rather than an action. That is normal for a generation or import that has not finished. You do not need to keep the panel open: the work continues whether or not you are watching, and the notification updates when it completes.


Acting on a notification

A finished notification carries a button that takes you straight to the thing it is about:

Action

Where it takes you

Edit page

The page in the Atlas editor

View pages

Your pages list

Edit bundle

The bundle editor

Edit cart drawer

The cart drawer editor

View listicle

The landing page


Marking as read

Select Mark as read on a single notification, or Mark all as read at the top of the panel. A notification you have read can be set back with Mark as unread.

Marking a notification read has no effect on the thing it refers to. It only clears the count.


When a notification points at something deleted

Notifications are not removed when their subject is. If you delete a page, bundle or cart drawer, its notification stays in the list, and selecting its action shows a message instead of opening anything:

  • This page has been deleted

  • This {item} has been deleted

ℹ️ This is expected rather than an error. Notifications are a record of what happened, so they survive the deletion of the thing that triggered them. Mark the notification as read to clear it.


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