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Collaboration and Notifications Help

Work with Topics, comments, Threads, mentions, subscriptions, and notification delivery.

Navigation

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Collaboration record articles

Learn about collaboration record articles in Constructable.

Notification articles

Learn about notification articles in Constructable.

Quick reference

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The 60-second collaboration model

Record access → Conversation or Topic → Mention or involvement → Subscription level → In-app notification → Optional delivery channel

Permissions, visibility, platforms, and packages

Learn about permissions, visibility, platforms, and packages in Constructable.

Troubleshooting collaboration and notifications

Threads shows conversations you are involved in, specifically follow, can see through an All Activity override, or can access as internal project discussions. Confirm access to the parent record first. Then clear filters, including the default Open filter if the Thread was res...

Collaboration records

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Choosing Topics, comments, and Threads

Choose a record based on where the conversation will make sense later, not just where you happen to start typing.

Creating, sharing, and archiving Topics

Use a Topic to keep related drawing markup and coordination together under a clear title.

Working with Topic markup and conversations

Topics keep marked drawing locations beside the discussion that explains them.

Starting comments and internal discussions

Start a comment where teammates will have the context they need to understand and act on it.

Finding and managing work in Threads

Use Threads as your personal conversation inbox. It is not a complete list of every comment in the project.

Resolving, reopening, tagging, and sharing Threads

Use Thread status to separate conversations that still need action from work that is complete.

Notifications

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Understanding mentions, involvement, and subscriptions

Whether you receive an alert depends on how the event involves you and the subscription level you chose.

Setting default and project notification preferences

Start with broad personal defaults, then add project or record overrides only where you need different coverage.

Following one Topic, Thread, or record

Use the bell on an individual record when you want to follow it more or less closely than the rest of its channel.

Configuring in-app, email, desktop, and mobile delivery

Use delivery settings to choose where eligible notifications reach you.

Reading and clearing notifications

Treat notification indicators as a prompt to review activity, then open the current record for its latest status.