Watchlists are great tools to be kept updated on project activity.   For example, if you're an event manager, you might want to create a search which alerts you to any projects happening in or near the vicinity of your planned event.  To do this, within the search menu, you'd draw a boundary around the event location, and save the search, and turn it into a watchlist, then turn notifications on for that watchlist. This means that any time a project is added within the boundary you've created, you'll receive a weekly notification - how good!

Here's how to set up a watchlist:

• Set up a saved search (instructions here) 
• Upon saving the search, you'll be asked if you want to create a watchlist. Tick yes  

​Your watchlist will now be available to view in the dashboard as per screenshot below.  To access the watchlist, click on the title in the menu, and the watchlist will open up in the screen. 

How to turn on notifications
Click the envelope icon next to the watchlist to turn on notifications. You will then receive a weekly round-up email for changes in watchlists you have turned on the notification for. We will only send you one email each week.
An aqua envelope indicates notifications are turned on for that particular watchlist.
To turn off the notification for the watchlist, just click the envelope to make it grey again. 

To find out more, watch the video here:

There are two different types of watchlist within your dashboard:

• Bookmarked Projects - this is a quick and easy way of 'favouriting' a project and adding it in to a list for you to come back to at a later date​. It is intended for a handful of projects rather than a place to store hundreds of projects. 
• Saved Search Watchlists - this is a watchlist created from a saved search, and any projects matching your search criteria will be continuously added to your watchlist.  This function is intended to enable you to keep an eye on project activity within certain areas or meeting certain criteria for reporting purposes. 

​There are two ways you can bookmark a project:

1)  Bookmarking an individual project

From the project summary page, click on the Bookmark button in the top right hand corner of the project summary page. Once clicked, the button will highlight and the project will be added to your bookmarked projects list found in your dashboard. 

2)  Bookmarking multiple projects at once from Search Results

From the search results page, click the 'bookmark all' button. 
​Note - in the future you will be able to add individual projects from the search results, but currently it's a bulk add - use this at your peril if you have many search results, as your  bookmark projects list will quickly become unwieldly and there is no way for you to bulk remove projects from your bookmarked project watchlist.  If you do have too many projects in there, you can email [email protected] and we can bulk remove for you. 

Removing projects from your bookmark list

​To remove the project from your bookmarks, you can either click the bookmark button again from the project summary page, or click the trash can icon next to the project in your watchlist. ​

To find out more, watch the video here: