Build email improvements and suggestions
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Jitesh Sojitra
Hi CircleCI,
I would like to give general suggestions regarding build email format and content which probably requires lot of improvements. Currently email:
- Look and feel is not good
- Email is not intuitive
- So narrow in size (user has to put focus in center instead of in left pane)
- Fonts are bad (use CircleCI site font in the email)
- Top 10% top space when you start reading the message occupied by CircleCI icon (get rid of it or move it to left pane)
- Unprofessional way email organized
- Required blank lines for sections missing
- Add feature to attach entire test summary (please!)
Let’s improve it, I’m strongly feeling when I start reading ciricleCI build related email; I just feel bored due to above parameters while reading build emails.
CCI-I-327
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Jason Allen
Where is the place to add new email addresses? No indication on this page where/how to do that.
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Jason Allen
And why does this thing say my name is Jason Allen? That's not my name! And why can't I edit it!?
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Enhanced Email Notifications - Share Your Feedback
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Henna Abbas
We recently launched enhanced email notification preferences with filters for "My Work", "Followed Projects", workflow statuses, and default branch settings.
What we want to know:
What notification filters or options are you missing?
What's confusing or unclear about the current experience?
What additional controls would make this more useful for your workflow?
Share your feedback to help us prioritize improvements.
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Chris Vermilion
I'm getting tons of notifications for failed builds on projects I'm following, but when I go to the settings page, every single box is unchecked. Is there something I'm missing?
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Henna Abbas
Chris Vermilion: Hi Chris Vermilion, I just sent you an email. Please respond to that and I will help get this resolved.
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Paul Littlewood
I'm not sure many people suddenly wanted notifications for successful workflows sent to them out of the blue. Bit annoying.
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Henna Abbas
Paul Littlewood thanks for the feedback. You can disable those notifications from user settings > notifications: https://app.circleci.com/settings/user/notifications
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alex.southwell@displayr.com
I'm definitely a little bit confused about what my work means and I'd also really like a button that just allows me to say do not notify me at all.
I see it says ones that you personally triggered but does that also mean PRs that I authored that triggered a CircleCI pipeline?
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Henna Abbas
alex.southwell@displayr.com Hi Alex, thanks for the feedback. My work will only notify you for builds you triggered. In a situation in which you are the author but not the actor who triggered the build, you will not be notified unless you also follow the project.
You can find more info in our docs here: https://circleci.com/docs/guides/integration/notifications/
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Henna Abbas
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I am closing this because the creation date and the template referenced is no longer being used.
We have launched a new email template for "my work" filters: https://circleci.com/changelog/only-get-notified-for-builds-you-triggered-using-the-my-work-filter/
We'll continue to push improvements to our build notifications and value your feedback.
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Jitesh Sojitra
Find attached sample build email which says top, right and left side blank panes.