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OKR Notifications
Overview
Updating your OKRs regularly is key to tracking progress and reaching your goals, but it can be easy to forget. That's where email reminders help.
Permissions
Only permitted usersOKR module permissionscan enable/disable and customize OKR reminder emails:
Jira Admin
In-module Admin
Users in roles with the granted Manage notifications permission.
To customize options in the Comments & discussions section, individual users do not require any permissions.
Set up email notifications
OKR email reminder
Note that the time zone for the email reminders is set to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
On the Settings > Notifications page, switch on the OKR update reminder option.
Select recipients, email reminders frequency, day, and time.
Optional: Send yourself a test email to see what the OKR email reminder looks like.
The email contains the following information about the OKRs:
OKR Key and full name
OKR progress
Date of the last update
Comments & discussions (per-user)
Every user can customize email updates on comments, even if they do not have the required global permissions to make changes on the Settings pages.
On the Settings > Notifications page, switch on the Comments & discussion option.
Check the options on the list to customize your notifications.
Based on the options you selected, your email can look like the one below: