This article describes how to configure the default functionality for email notifications and comments that you receive and assign.

Receive Email Notifications for Comments

You can configure whether you will receive an email notification when another user assigns either a new comment or a comment response to you. By default, email notifications are turned on.

You will not receive email notifications for comments that you assign to yourself, either manually or using the auto-assign feature described below.

1. Launch a project from the dashboard.
2. Click Configure Project > User Settings.
3. Set the Comment Notification Email toggle On or Off.

Auto-assign Comments

To speed up the creation of comments, set the default behavior to control who is assigned a comment when you update the status.

How is auto-assignment useful? Suppose you are an editor whose task is to identify changes and improvements for all videos in your title. There is only one video expert on the team who can make the corrections you suggest. Set up auto-assignment to assign all comments that you create with the status Open to the video expert.

1. Launch a project from the dashboard. 
2. Click Configure Project > Comments Settings to access the Comments page.
3. In the row for the kind of comment you want to auto-assign, click the current assignee in the second column.
4. In the drop-down that appears, click the team member to whom you want to auto-assign this type of comment.

Understand Comment Summaries

Comment summaries appear on the dashboard and in each Habitat project. These summaries show a color-coded status for the comments and the total number of comments in the project.

Colors

Count

The dashboard and the Table of Contents sidebar display the comment count as two stacked numbers. The top number shows the count of comments of that type that are assigned to you. The bottom number is the count of all comments of that type. A hyphen (-) means there are no comments of that type. Depending on where you look, the counts represent the number of comments in the project, in the chapter, or on the page.

Customize the Comment Color

The default color for Habitat comments is yellow. You can customize the default comment color of an Inkdoc to meet your organization’s needs.

1. Click the Inkdoc in the Habitat dashboard. The Inkdoc’s base URL displays in the URL bar.

   https://habitat.inkling.com/project/sn_ab12

2. Add this file path to the end of URL to access the habitat-configuration.json file:

   /theme/files/s9ml/.templates/habitat-configuration.json

3. Add the "issueHighlightColor" key-value pair to the habitat-configuration.json file. Add this key-value pair below the "fileFormatVersion" key-value pair. Use a six-digit hex code for the color value.

   Be careful when editing this file. Do not change any other code or formatting, and be sure to format the "issueHighlightColor" key-value pair exactly as the example shows:

   • Surround the key and the value with straight quotes.
   • Add one space after the colon between the key and the value.
   • Add a comma after the value’s ending quote.
   • Check that you prefix the hex code with the hash (#) symbol.
4. Click Save.
5. Reload the Inkdoc with Cmd + R (Mac) or F5 (Windows) to refresh the settings.
6. Check that your comments show the custom color.

HTML Color Hex Codes

 The HTML Color Codes site describes color codes used in web development, including hex color codes. It also provides color pickers that display the corresponding hex color code for a particular color. You can pick a color and copy its hex color code value to another application.

Receive Email Notifications for Feedback

You can configure whether you will receive an email notification when an end user submits feedback on an Inkdoc. By default, email notifications are turned on.

1. Launch a project from the dashboard.
2. Click Configure Project > User Settings.
3. Set the Feedback Notification Email toggle On or Off.