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# Follow items

Receive notifications for items that you are following and whenever you are mentioned in a comment.

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## Follow an item

Follow items to receive notifications whenever the item is updated. You can follow a specific item or multiple items. These are the items that you can follow: Features, backlog items, tasks, tests, requirements.

Tip: You can use the Followed by me filter option in any grid to see only items that you are following or not following.

To follow a specific item:

1. Prerequisite. Make sure that you enabled email notifications. For details, see User preferences.

2. Open an item to view its details.

3. In the toolbar, click the Follow button, and select the notification options.
4. To make your notification selections the default for all followed items, click Save as default.

To follow multiple items:

1. Prerequisite. Make sure that you enabled email notifications. For details, see User preferences.

2. Click the tab for the item type that you want to multi-select.

   For example, click Backlog Items under a feature.

3. If there is more than one item, select the checkbox of the items that you want to follow.

4. Right-click the screen to display the context menu, and then click the Follow button .

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## Configure notifications

You can configure the type of change notifications that you want to receive.

To configure notifications:

1. Follow an item.
2. Click the Follow button for that item, and select the notification options.

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