Notify mode lets you compose and send messages directly to other users screens. This may be considered a more urgent form of E-mail. Provided that the recipient is running OfficeTalk and OfficeTalk is the active application, a yellow coloured notification will appear on the user's desktop. If OfficeTalk is not the active application, the program's button will start flashing on the task bar. When the user clicks on the OfficeTalk button in the task bar, OfficeTalk will become the active application, displaying the yellow coloured notification. If the recipient is not running OfficeTalk, the notification is stored until the recipient next logs onto OfficeTalk.
You may send notifications to both local and remote OfficeTalk users. You may also send notifications to non OfficeTalk users, for example, Internet recipients. Such recipients will simply receive a formatted mail message.
Notify mode provides four different notification styles. These are:
Simple Format
While You Were Out Format
Yes/No Format
Respond Format