Remember the good old days when the paperboy delivered the newspaper to your door, or at least someone's door in a movie? 🗞 The wish for convenience transcends epochs, such as the need to have pressing news be delivered to you at little to no effort, and that’s what our new Inbox does for you: it delivers relevant content to you in one single location, regularly updated! 📰 🤩 If you're intrigued, just keep reading!

The Inbox is a brand new area in FULL FABRIC that automatically aggregates content from all over the portal in one place, in real-time.📍 As a tool, it lets you quickly browse through the latest updates related to your work, thus providing a convenient way to monitor and manage your Emails, Tasks, Events, Applications and Forms:

The Inbox collects and displays information that's pertinent to you, i.e., applications to classes that you're the owner of, tasks under your responsibility and emails exchanged with you. Consequently, different users will view different things – or cards, as they are called. 👩🏻‍💻👨‍💻 On the other hand, staff is equally notified of event registrations and form submissions, regardless of who the author is.

The Inbox can be found on the left sidebar; it's the second item on the menu, right below Home:

Please note that the Inbox is not an email client. For one, it retrieves information from a variety of sources to give you all the latest scoops, and, second, it's interactively very distinct, as we'll show you next.

As mentioned before, the Inbox is a content aggregator. It connects to multiple modules in FULL FABRIC, and as you cycle through the tabs, every page is an adapted and concise version of the original area for your perusal:

When it comes to Emails, Events, Applications and Forms, cards are accompanied by a shortcut – View email, View submission, View application and View submission again, respectively –, to whisk you to the corresponding object. So, for instance, hitting View submission under Forms would redirect you to the exact submission at hand, like so:

Since Tasks is a more straight-forward feature, so is its relationship with the Inbox, in that you can actually directly mark it as completed by tapping Complete task:

In addition, you can also Edit or Delete it by clicking the vertical ellipsis.

Moving to the last tab, Archived, this is a repository of past cards that you want to keep forever (or at least indefinitely), but not on your main view, particularly useful to prevent clutter and keep you focused on fresh stuff. Minus for Tasks, every tab has an Archive function, accessible through the vertical ellipsis button:

Once a card is archived, it's promptly moved under the homonymous tab:

There, you can just as easily Restore it, as pictured above.

While reviewing the items in your Inbox, you’ll often encounter situations where an action needs to be taken — either by you, by a colleague or through another process. This is where a Task (or call to action, in this scenario) comes in: you can create a task directly from an Inbox item and turn information into actionable work.

You'll find the Create Task button located both at the top right of the Inbox and in the individual inbox items:

But if the task is to be assigned to a colleague, how will they know what's it about?

Easy! In the task creation modal you can 'link it' to the individual profile, application, form submission or event registration that it's about!

If a certain staff role in Full Fabric has limited permissions forbidding access to one or more areas – say, Events, for example –, access will likewise be denied in the Inbox.