---
title: Setting company notification defaults and locks
description: Decide for the whole company what a new employee receives, require or forbid a channel, and check the actual coverage of push alerts.
url: "http://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/notifications-company-defaults-and-locks/"
updated: "2026-11-05"
category: "Platform / Alerts & notifications"
---

# Setting company notification defaults and locks

The Notifications page of Manage Illizeo sets, for the whole company, what a new employee receives and what your staff cannot change: a required notification, or on the contrary a forbidden channel. This article explains the two settings of each box, the actual coverage of push alerts and how this page fits with the other settings. It is for the administrators of your space.

## Before you start

- Open **Settings › Manage Illizeo › Notifications**.
- You need the “Notifications — company defaults and locks” permission (role matrix, Platform administration section, Global settings group). At the **Access** level, the page can be read but nothing can be ticked; at the **Execute** level, it can be changed. By default, only the Administrator role holds it: this page can impose notifications on all staff, so keep it restricted.
- The preferences each employee sets for themselves are described in [Choosing your notifications](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/notifications-my-preferences/).

## Two settings per box

The table uses the same families and events as the personal screen, for all the modules activated in your space. Each box holds two stacked controls: the channel box and, below it, the **locked** box.

| Channel | locked | Effect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ticked | No | The channel is on by default. The employee is still free to switch it off. |
| Unticked | No | The channel is off by default. The employee can switch it on. |
| Ticked | Yes | The channel is required: the employee cannot switch it off. |
| Unticked | Yes | The channel is forbidden, even to someone who wants it. |

The default applies to new employees and to anyone who has never touched the box: if you change it, it also changes for them. Someone who made their own choice keeps it. The lock, however, applies to everyone, including those who had chosen otherwise. On the personal screen, a locked box appears greyed out, with a tooltip saying whether it is required or forbidden.

![The Notifications — company defaults page: Checked and Locked rules, Actual push coverage box with the number of reachable employees and devices, then the start of the table of events](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/notifications-company-defaults-and-locks-01.en_.png?resize=800%2C500&quality=80&ssl=1)
Settings › Manage Illizeo › Notifications.

## Setting a notification

1. Find the event row in its family.
2. Tick or untick the channel box: **Dashboard** (the bell), **Email**, **Push** and, depending on your space, **Slack** or **Teams**.
3. Tick **locked** below the box if the employee must not be able to change it.
4. Click **Save changes**, which appears as soon as you change something.

![The defaults table, Payroll and attendance family: for each event, the box of each channel and below it the locked box](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/notifications-company-defaults-and-locks-02.en_.png?resize=800%2C382&quality=80&ssl=1)
Two controls per box: the default and the lock.

The Slack and Teams columns only appear if your company has connected these services (for Teams, with notifications or approvals turned on).

## Actual push coverage

The **Actual push coverage** box, above the table, shows how many active employees can actually receive a push alert, and on how many devices. This figure matters: locking the Push column authorises sending, it does not make it arrive. Each employee must have turned on alerts in their browser, and no setting can do it for them. On iPhone and iPad, alerts only arrive while an Illizeo tab is open.

Push relays the bell notification: a default push on a row where Dashboard is unticked reaches no one. The box's tooltip says so.

## What this page does not set

- The text of emails, and switching them off for the whole company, are set in **Settings › Manage Illizeo › Email**. A disabled email is not sent, even if the Email column is locked as ticked (see [Automated emails: catalogue and activation](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/emails-catalogue-and-activation/)).
- Reminders for emails that wait for an action are set in each template (see [Sending reminders until the action is done](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/emails-reminders/)).
- Security, consent and billing messages are always sent and are not listed in the table.
- Some modules have their own page: the Flex Office Notifications page shows this same setting reduced to its families (see [Flex Office: notifications](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/flex-office-notifications-and-emails/)); Training has its reminder rules (see [Administering the Training module](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/training-administer/)); Expenses has its own notification settings (see [Administering the Expenses module](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/expenses-administer/)).

## Traceability

Every default or lock changed is recorded in **Settings › Manage Illizeo › User Logs**, under the “Company notification defaults” module, with its author and date. A save without any change records nothing.

## Good to know

- A family only appears if its module is activated in your space. Employees only see the families of the modules their role gives access to.
- Without any setting from you, Illizeo's values apply: Dashboard, Email and Teams ticked, Slack and Push unticked, no lock.

## FAQ

### How do I make everyone receive approval requests by email?

On the **Approval requests** row, tick **Email** and **locked**, then save. Also check that the email templates concerned are active.

### An employee has unticked a notification I want to make compulsory.

Lock the box as ticked: the lock overrides their choice.

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