Discarding soft notifications | Nokia Series 60 guide

Figure 5-43:A grouped soft notification. The height of the window is dynamic and depends on the number of lines in the list.

Discarding soft notifications

The application that launched a soft notification can discard it without user intervention when the notification becomes obsolete. A soft notification should remain pending until the user has responded to it, or started using the corresponding application so that in effect the notification becomes obsolete. In that case the application can discard the notification even though the user may not have actually seen it.

When the user reacts to a soft notification by pressing the right softkey (for example Read), or selects one item of a grouped soft notification, the item becomes interpreted as obsolete, and will not reappear. If a soft notification contained more than one item, the other ones remain pending and reappear when the user returns to idle.

The user can dismiss the notification by pressing the right softkey, labeled Exit. After this, the notification does not reappear until new events cause a new notification to be created. In case of a grouped soft notification, all items it contains are discarded.

Many simultaneous soft notifications

Soft notifications are stacked in case there is more than one pending at a time: after the topmost one is discarded, the one following it will be displayed. Each notification has a priority value that determines the order of the notifications.

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Nokia Editorial notes Contents Page Page Page Audience About this documentPurpose Where Nokia Series 60 UI Belongs Colour capability 4096 or more colours preferred Display Softkeys Call handling Other KeysExtra keys Following keys are required for Series 60 UI Application window Windows and panes Main pane Standard panes in application windows Title pane Status pane Tabs Context paneNavi pane Context pane displays the current applications icon Navigation text Signal paneBattery pane / Universal indicator pane Indicators Pop-up windows Battery paneUsing a graphical indicator. It also acts as a Charging indicator Call window Options menuQuery Soft notification Truncation Presentation of textKeypad functions Justification Scroll left / Scroll right Keypad toneTypical functions of the standard keys Scroll up / Scroll down Send Section Selection listLeft softkey Right softkey Editors, can be used together with End Applications key Numeric keypad 0-9, *, # Clear EditDuring calls Navigating in applications PowerNavigation Navigation using Tabs Folder hierarchies Highlighting Navigation using Links List browsing Empty lists and grids Vice versa Scrolling indicator for lists Order of items and browsing in grids Empty cells are skipped the focus is never on an empty cell Scroll up / down Move focus the list Scroll left / right Scrolling indicator for gridsList types Menu list Selection list Select See section Markable list Other keys Do the default action of the keyScroll up / down Move focus in the list Scroll left / right From the user required otherwise ignored Markable list Page Keypad functions for multiselection lists Multiselection list Available values in a menu list Setting listsPop-up setting Type, like date/time editor Text settingSlider setting Using the Scroll left and Scroll right keys Left softkey OK Scroll up / down Always-editable forms Forms Form items Forms without the Options softkey Text field CancelDone Right softkey Done Slider Adjustable using the Scroll left and right keysList layouts Selecting it opens a data query Column structure of lists List item types Double item Single-line item with graphic HeadingSingle-line item with Large graphic Two-line item Double item style 2 with graphic Double item With large graphicDouble item style Item type combinations Setting itemAttribute text ABC, value text C usage Setting lists Numbered items Selection grid Grid typesFind pane Menu grid 37.A find pane within a selection list of names in Phonebook Options menu 39.Submenu in the options menu Submenus Add recipient Unavailable itemsOther option menus OK options menu Edit options menu Options templateFunction Function in the context SMS Mandatory Permanent note Error noteConfirmation note Information note Use a confirmation note when Some guidelines concerning note usage Grouped soft notification Soft notificationsUngrouped soft notification Many simultaneous soft notifications Discarding soft notifications Confirmation query Queries 45.A confirmation query List query Multiselection list query Data query Password query Data queries with multiple fields IndicatorsSignal and battery indicators Indicators in Navi pane Status indicators As the editing mode numeric/alphanumeric Editing indicators in pop-up windowsSoft indicators When all tabs are not visible Idle Operator indicatorScrolling indicators Application-specific indicators Application shell Fast application swapping Application handlingShortcuts Customizing the Application shell Multitasking Opening and closing applications Application interactions Phone Simple one-call cases, the Phone application looks like this End Volume controlCall handling Image viewers Viewers and playersText viewers Audio and video players Multimedia viewers Edit key Text editingKey # key Edit menu 10.Special character window Editing indicators Creating new documents Document handlingSelecting text Saving edited data Groups Folders Fetching data Settings