Hi guys, I was interested in creating the equivalent functionality of “watcher” that is offered by a lot of PM apps around their tasks and entities. This is a user who is “subscribed” to an entity’s activity - so they are informed when any status changes, fields are adjusted, comments are made, an…

Implemented in new release [image] Sep 21, 2023 / face_holding_back_tears Watch Entity (through tears), AI Search is out of beta, no fixed bugs Changelog face_holding_back_tears Watch Entity and get notifications This feature was requested by at least 50 accoun…

[image] B_Sp: as far as search, you guys have some very nice aspects, such as speed, default to most recently viewed, and a few others, but definitely do not agree you’re superior to Clickup, Wrike, Asana, and a bunch of other tools that have all kinds of filters, snippets more built out I th…

[image] Lack of Work Management features in Fibery (Reminders, Dependencies, Notifications, My Work, etc.) You’re absolutely right @Chr1sG that Fibery is better than even some industry-leading tools in certain respects. I actually didn’t mean that. So sorry if I gave that impression. I actuall…

One final thing, I do not want to give the impression that Fibery just doesn’t care about these things. [image] Fibery End Game (product company example) How Fibery will transform product companies work and knowledge management processes, help them invent better solutions and build thing…

[image] Chr1sG: [image] HereBeBeasties: notifications are honestly the biggest drawback … and very nearly made us not buy the product. But for every user that complains that product area X is just not good enough, there are other users for whom X is just about good enough. It’s like the p…

[image] HereBeBeasties: I am not a Fibery dev, just an experienced external dev looking in.) I’m not a dev either, but… [image] HereBeBeasties: You’d clone/refactor the assignees functionality, remove a couple of bits from it (it won’t be used for avatars badges on summary links, etc.), …

[image] Lack of Work Management features in Fibery (Reminders, Dependencies, Notifications, My Work, etc.) I love the team, and I love the product, and I especially love the vision. … I dig Fibery, and everything I am saying here is because I love it and I see it getting so much less love from …

As usual, @Oshyan you’re feedback is thoughtful, actionable and delivered graciously, thanks. And thanks also to @B_Sp @HereBeBeasties et al. for providing a view ‘from the trenches’, here and elsewhere.

The concept of watchers could be implemented quite easily, if the comments field also appeared in the changed field drop down. If, we could trigger an automation when a comment is added. e.g. entity comment are updated trigger notification to users in field (e.g. watcher) [image] :pray:

New comments can trigger a rule, you just need to use the ‘Entity linked to…’ option and choose the Comments field. (they behave like a one-to-many relation field in that sense)

OK this is good - many thanks, for context: The comment looks like: [image] The automation setup looks like: [image] The message template looks like: {! Comments:Document Secret !} <% const fibery = context.getService('fibery'); const lastComment = Entity.Comments[Entity.Comments.length-1]…

[DONE] "Watcher" of an Entity

Ideas & Features

Chr1sG September 16, 2022, 10:31pm 31

Awww

Topic		Replies	Views
Sep 21, 2023 / 🥹 Watch Entity (through tears), AI Search is out of beta, no fixed bugs Changelog	44	1422	September 15, 2024
Simpler reminder functionality in addition to automation-based approach Ideas & Features notifications	17	1682	June 24, 2025
Q: What are your top 3 missing things/features in Fibery? Ideas & Features	48	3406	May 29, 2023
[APPROVED] Mention notification UI improvement Ideas & Features	8	1495	November 16, 2020
Lack of Work Management features in Fibery (Reminders, Dependencies, Notifications, My Work, etc.) Ideas & Features	74	5531	April 15, 2026

[DONE] "Watcher" of an Entity

Related topics