1 WHAT IT IS
Bizzmine surfaces three types of alerts in the top-right corner of every page: Tasks, Notifications, and Reminders. Each icon shows a count of items waiting for your attention. They look similar but serve very different purposes — Tasks demand action, Notifications report what already happened, and Reminders warn you about upcoming or missed deadlines.
2 WHO IT'S FOR
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Anyone who uses Bizzmine — whether you're an end user completing work or an admin overseeing processes — will encounter all three alert types regularly.
3 PREREQUISITES
No prerequisites. You just need to be logged in to Bizzmine. If you're not sure how to sign in, see Sign in to Bizzmine.
4 HOW IT WORKS
Tasks — things Bizzmine needs you to do
A task means Bizzmine is waiting on you. It's a concrete step attached to a specific record — a form to fill in, a document to review, a corrective action to close out, or a training exam to sit. You can't dismiss a task without dealing with it; it only disappears once it's completed, forwarded, or cancelled by someone with the right permissions.
What you can do with a task:
A task can sit in one of five states: Open, Deadline exceeded (overdue), Completed, Cancelled, or Timed (waiting on a scheduled step).
Notifications — things that already happened
A notification is a heads-up, not a to-do. It tells you something already happened — usually the result of a task someone else just finished (e.g. "Your document was approved" or "Incident #2026-0129 was closed"). There is nothing to act on: you read it, and that's the end of it.
What you can do with a notification:
A notification never takes you to the underlying record — it is purely informational. The only state it has is Unread or Read, shown by a small dot.
Reminders — nudges about a deadline
A reminder is a nudge about a deadline — either one coming up soon or one that has already passed. It looks and behaves exactly like a notification (same read/unread dot, same "mark all as read"), but the reason it exists is always a date: Bizzmine's scheduler generates it automatically as a due date approaches or is exceeded.
A reminder about a task does not complete that task for you — the actual work still sits in your Tasks list. Think of the reminder as the alarm clock, and the task as the thing you have to get up and do.
What you can do with a reminder:
Quick comparison
| Icon | Question it answers | Clicking it | How it clears |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tasks | What do I still need to do? | Takes you into the record, form, or exam | Complete, forward, or cancel the real step — no manual dismiss |
| Notifications | What already happened? | Opens a read-only message pop-up | Marked read on close, or "Mark all as read" |
| Reminders | What deadline is close or overdue? | Opens a read-only message pop-up | Marked read on close, or "Mark all as read" |
Where do these come from?
Most tasks and notifications appear because of everyday workflow activity — someone submits a form, a step moves forward, an approval is needed. You don't need to configure any of that.
Some are generated automatically on a repeating schedule via a setting an administrator configures once, called Periodic Tasks & Reminders. For example, an admin sets up "create a fire extinguisher inspection every month." Bizzmine then creates a fresh Task for the assigned person each month and sends Reminder nudges as the due date approaches or slips — no one has to remember to schedule it by hand. As an end user you never configure this yourself; you simply receive the Tasks and Reminders it produces.
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