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title: The notification centre (the bell)
description: Read your notifications by tab, act from a card, mark everything as read, archive and restore notifications, and adjust the panel.
url: "https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/notifications-notification-centre/"
updated: "2026-11-05"
category: "Platform / Alerts & notifications"
---

# The notification centre (the bell)

The bell at the top of the screen opens the Illizeo notification centre: requests to approve, decisions on your requests, documents to sign, alerts, mentions, congratulations… This article explains how to read these notifications, act from a card, mark them as read, archive them and find them again. It is for all users.

## Before you start

- No particular permission is needed: everyone sees their own notifications.
- You only see the tabs of the modules activated in your space that your role gives access to. The **All**, **Alerts** and **Congratulations** tabs are open to everyone.
- What you receive, and through which channel, is set in your preferences (see [Choosing your notifications](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/notifications-my-preferences/)).

## Opening the bell

The number on the bell shows your unread notifications. Click the bell: the **Notifications** panel opens, with the number of new notifications next to the title.

![The Notifications panel open below the bell: title with the number of new notifications, All, Absences, Approvals and further tabs with their unread counts, list of cards, and at the bottom the Archive all, Mark all as read and Archived buttons](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/notifications-notification-centre-01.en_.png?resize=560%2C774&quality=80&ssl=1)
The bell opens the notification centre.

Tabs sort the notifications by area: **All**, then for example **Absences**, **Attendance**, **Approvals**, **Expenses**, **Payroll**, **Signature**, **Performance**, **Flex Office**, **Scheduling**, **Alerts**, **Projects**, **Congratulations** and **Budget**, plus the tabs of your other modules. Each tab shows its number of unread notifications.

## Reading and opening a notification

- An unread card is highlighted. It shows who is concerned, what happened and how long ago.
- Click the card to mark it as read.
- When the card names an item as a link (a leave, an expense report, a task), click that link: the panel closes and the page concerned opens.
- In the **Alerts** tab, each alert shows its level: **Important**, **To check**, **Validated** or **Information**.

## Acting from a card

Some cards carry buttons, depending on your permissions:

- a request to approve (leave, a request going through an approval workflow): **Approve** or **Decline**. To decline, enter the reason, then confirm;
- a document to sign in Illizeo: **Sign**, **Decline** or **Delegate**;
- an approval delegation offered by a colleague: **Accept** or **Decline**;
- a mention in a thread: a **Reply…** field to answer without leaving the panel.

A card waiting for your decision only becomes read once the decision is made. If the decision fails (request already decided, reason missing), a message explains why and the card goes back to its previous state. Expense reports are approved from their own page: the card takes you there. How approval circuits work is described in [Flows & approvals](https://illizeo.com/en/docs-category/platform-en/platform-flows-approvals/).

## Marking everything as read

At the bottom of the panel, **Mark all as read** marks all your notifications as read, whatever tab is displayed. Requests waiting for your decision still need to be handled.

## Archiving notifications

1. Go to the tab you want to clear.
2. Click **Archive all** at the bottom of the panel.
3. The **Archive notifications?** window shows how many notifications are displayed out of the tab's total. Choose **Archive the N shown** or **Archive all N in the tab**, or **Cancel**.

Requests waiting for your decision are never archived: they stay in the bell, and a message says how many stayed. The gear menu, to the right of the tabs, offers the same action under **Delete**: it archives the current tab, after the same confirmation, without erasing anything.

## Finding an archived notification

1. At the bottom of the panel, click **Archived**.
2. Archived notifications are listed in pages of 20, with their archiving date (**Previous**, **Next** to change page).
3. Click **Restore** on a card to put it back in the bell, or **Restore all** to put back the cards of the page displayed.
4. **Back to notifications** returns to the bell.

![The Archived view of the panel, still empty: Back to notifications link, Archived · 0 counter, No archived notifications message and Restore all button](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/notifications-notification-centre-02.en_.png?resize=560%2C516&quality=80&ssl=1)
Archived: find and restore a notification.

## Adjusting the panel

The gear, to the right of the tabs, opens the **Edit** menu:

- **Width**: a slider widens or narrows the panel;
- **Card style**: **Divided** (cards separated by a line) or **Boxed** (each card in a frame).

These settings only affect your own display.

![The panel's gear menu: Edit expanded with the Width slider and the Card style choice between Divided and Boxed, then the Delete entry](https://i0.wp.com/illizeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/notifications-notification-centre-03.en_.png?resize=560%2C774&quality=80&ssl=1)
The gear: panel width and card style.

## Good to know

- The panel loads the most recent notifications of each tab; the numbers on the bell and on the tabs do count all your unread notifications.
- To be alerted even when you are working in another browser tab, turn on browser alerts in your preferences.
- The Training and Flex Office modules also have their own notification and reminder pages (see [Administering the Training module](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/training-administer/) and [Flex Office: notifications](https://illizeo.com/en/centre-aide/flex-office-notifications-and-emails/)).

## FAQ

### I cannot see a module's tab.

The tab only appears if the module is activated in your space and your role gives access to it. Without that access, its notifications do not appear under **All** either. Ask your administrator to check your role.

### I archived a request by mistake.

A request waiting for your decision cannot be archived. For any other notification, open **Archived** and click **Restore**.

### Some notifications no longer reach my bell.

Check in your preferences that the **Dashboard** column is ticked for that event. If the box is greyed out, your company has locked it.

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