When a spec matters to you, you want to know when it moves on: when it reaches Ready for development, when a new version goes live, when someone proposes a change you need to approve. Watch the article, or the category it lives in, and DevStride tells you.
Open the article in the editor. In the Status & lifecycle panel, click Watch beside the article's state. It turns to Watching; click it again to stop.
On Manage articles, open a category's ⋯ menu and choose Watch category. A bell then appears on the category in the tree. Choose Stop watching from the same menu to stop.
Watching a category covers every article filed in it and in every subcategory beneath it, including articles added later.
Anyone who can read an article or category can watch it; no extra permission is needed. If a category is deleted, its watches go with it, while watches on its articles stay.
You get an in-app notification when a watched article, or an article in a watched category:
| Something happened | The notification |
|---|---|
| Moved to another stage | A specification you watch moved to stage followed by the stage's name |
| Taken out of its stage | A specification you watch was taken out of its stage |
| Was published, so a new version went live | A specification you watch has a new published version |
| Had a change submitted for approval | A change was proposed to a specification you watch |
| Had its proposed change approved | A proposed change to a specification you watch was approved and published |
| Had its proposed change sent back | A proposed change to a specification you watch was sent back |
| Had its proposed change withdrawn | A proposed change to a specification you watch was withdrawn |
Clicking a notification opens the article in the editor.
Ordinary edits to an article are not announced, and nor are comments: comments notify the people in the conversation, as described in Article review comments.
Watch notifications appear in the app only. They are not sent by email, Slack or Microsoft Teams.
Approval for Published Changes
Make changes to published articles in a category wait for a publisher's approval: edits become a proposed change, a publisher compares it with the live version, then approves it or sends it back.
Overview
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