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How to configure the Notifications Center web part?

Customize your channels, filters, and audiences for targeted notifications

How to configure the Notifications Center web part

Customize your channels, filters, and audiences for targeted notifications

1. Overview

The Notifications Center web part allows you to configure how, where, and to whom notifications are sent across your organization. By adjusting channels, content type filters, audience properties, and language rules, you can fine-tune your notification strategy to match business needs—without having to rely on endless distribution lists in Entra ID.

👉 Once your setup is complete, learn how to actually send notifications here: Notifications (how to send them).

2. What you’ll learn

In this guide, you’ll learn how to:

  • Configure notification channels (Mail, Intranet, Teams, Mobile).

  • Manage content type filters (News, Events, Jobs, FAQs, Incidents).

  • Set up advanced audience filters based on user profile properties.

  • Apply a language filter for multilingual environments.

3. Channels

By default, the Notification Center web part offers four channels:

  • Mail

  • Intranet

  • Teams

  • Mobile

You can configure these channels in the property panel of the web part (make sure the web part is in edit mode).

Each channel has two toggles:

Setting Description
Enable Decide if this channel should be available to send notifications.
Checked by default Define whether the channel is automatically selected when creating a new notification.

4. Content type filter

The Notification Center lets you filter notifications by content type. By default, these filters are available:

  • News

  • FAQs

  • Events

  • Jobs

  • Incidents

You can customize them by clicking Manage content type filters, which opens a configuration panel. Here you can:

  • Edit existing filters

  • Add new filters

  • Remove unused filters

This ensures that only relevant content types are used when sending notifications.

5. Audience properties configuration

When selecting an audience (e.g., an email distribution list), you can refine it even further with advanced audience filters.

Example:
You select a distribution list with all employees but apply an advanced filter for Department = Sales. Only Sales employees will receive the notification.

Requirements:

  • The property must exist in the SharePoint User Profile.

  • The exact internal name must be used in the filter configuration.

Each filter consists of the following fields:

Field Description
Label Display name shown in the Notification Center.
Property Exact internal name of the user profile property.
Type Data type (text, drop-down, etc.).
Options Available options if the property is a drop-down.

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6. Language Filter

In multilingual environments, notifications can be filtered by user language.

This ensures that only users who have set their profile language to French, English, or another supported language receive the corresponding notification.

✅ Advantage: Both advanced audience filters and language filters reduce the need for multiple Entra ID distribution lists. Segmentation happens directly in the Notification Center.

7. Technical settings

In the property panel you can also configure:

  • Caching: Enable or disable caching of search results, and define the cache duration.

  • Overview settings: Adjust how the Notification Center displays its search results.

8. Watch interactive tutorial

Watch the interactive demo below to follow each step and see how to configure the Notifications Center web part.

See also


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