Notification Digest

The error messages are during development, so the admin group is basically everyone in the system at that point. Yes we can reassign the notifications to the person developing the process or the initiator or whatever, but when we're testing we can see on the screen when we screwed up, so sending out an e-mail notification is almost insulting at that point. Then when we finish development, we have to remember to set the alerts to the right group, which is a step that is easy to forget. 

And yes, we can assign the task e-mails to groups (they are) but the users could get many tasks a day which they can easily see by going into the app. They don't need a spam of e-mails to also let them know what they need to do in the app as well. 

The error messages are during development. Every time someone tests something, if they didn't get it perfect, all the other developers get an e-mail. While yes, we can change the assignment of who gets those error alerts to the initiator or something during testing, it's an extra thing to think of that we'll need to remember to change again before we push to production. It's something that is really easy to forget about. 

I REALLY wish that error emails were automatically disabled when testing a process model. The person testing can see on the screen that they screwed up. No need to send out an e-mail to the world letting everyone else know it. 

As for task assignment e-mails, people in that task's group could be potentially getting many task notifications a day. They don't need to be getting a spam of e-mails that quickly become irritating. They can also see what tasks they have to deal with when they log into the app, so e-mail notifications are more of a backup than the main way of someone knowing they have something to do.  A list of tasks at the end/beginning of the day that they need to attend to is sufficient. If the user could decide which type of notification they get out of Appian (single, digest or none) that would be even better.