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Notifications, watching & live updates — Watchpoints: tell me when a number crosses

A watchpoint is a saved number and a threshold — “overdue invoices above ten”, “pipeline under 50,000” — checked every hour, that notifies you when the number crosses the line. You create one from the Watch button on any view's toolbar, so what gets watched is exactly what you were looking at: the view's own filters become the watchpoint's, and the number is either the record count or the sum of a numeric column. It fires on the crossing, not while the number stays there. An hourly “still above ten” for a fortnight is how people learn to ignore alerts, so a watchpoint that has already fired stays quiet until the number comes back and crosses again. Creating one while you are already past the threshold arms it silently and says so, rather than firing a stale alarm at you. A watchpoint belongs to you, like a digest: your permissions decide the number, two people watching the same thing are two separate alerts, and if you leave the workspace yours go quiet. Manage them from My Work.
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