The information on the My User Settings page is related to your individual user experience in the Yext Platform and not business or professional information. To access your user settings in Yext Desktop, click your profile picture in the upper right of the screen, then click My User Settings.
The My User Settings page consists of four tabs:
- My Information - View and update your name and email address.
- Preferences - Configure the default homepage, language, and timezone.
- Devices - Manage mobile devices connections for Mobile or Relate. This page also contains details about Salesforce Embedded Relate integrations.
- Email Subscriptions - Select and deselect which Yext-related emails you’re subscribed to.
Read below for more detailed description of some of the different types of settings.
Default home page
This is the page that you will be directed to when you login. The options available to choose from depends on your user role and organizational settings. The following options are available to set as your default home page:
- User workspace
- Social
- Sites
- Relate
- Administrator home (if the user is an administrator)
- Administrator accounts overview (if the user is an administrator)
Listed email address
This section allows you to change the email address where you receive notifications from Yext.
Language preference
Here you can change the default language used by Yext. The available language options are:
- Deutsch
- English
- Español (España)
- Español (México)
- Français
- Français (Canada)
- Magyar
- Italiano
- Português
Time zone
Your default timezone is set by your organization. So if you work away from your organization's headquarters, you can select which timezone to use when creating events, publishing posts, or setting your office hours.
Email notifications
Here you can choose your notification preferences that control the kind of emails you receive from Yext. The available options include:
- Post reminder: Get a reminder if it’s been a while since you last posted. Can be turned on or off.
- Dynamic campaign reminder: Get a reminder if there is no scheduled content in your dynamic campaign. Can be turned on or off.
- Contact updates: Get a summary of customers you follow through Yext. Can be turned on or off.
- Onboarding: Get a notification prompting you to learn how to use Social at your own pace with this staggered email training. Can be turned on or off.
- Webinars: Get a notification informing you about upcoming webinars hosted by Yext. Can be turned on or off.
- Daily administrator emails: Get daily updates on how many new alerts are found and how many new items have been submitted for approval. Can be turned on or off.
- Yearly survey: Get a notification to take the annual Yext survey, which helps us improve by letting us know what you think of your platform and services. Can be turned on or off.
- Suggested content: Get a notification letting you know when there’s new content in your posts library. This notification can be set to Optimized, which will only show you new posts every so often, or you can set it to Custom and choose between Off, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
- Post notification denials: Get a notification when posts are denied publication. Can be turned on or off.
- Recent settings updates: Get a daily report on any changes to settings. This notification is only sent if changes have occurred in your settings. Can be turned on or off.
- New campaign: Get a notification telling you when there's a new campaign available. Can be turned on or off.
- Unread messages: Get a notification when you have unread messages in your Relate account. Can be turned on or off.
- Reminders confirmation: Get a confirmation when your reminders import completes. Can be turned on or off.
- Relate contacts confirmation: Get a confirmation when your contacts are imported in Relate. Can be turned on or off.
- Action list new card notification: Get a notification when you have new cards in your action list. Can be turned on or off.
- Campaign auto-subscription: Get a notification when you are automatically subscribed to a campaign. Can be turned on or off.
- Facebook reauthorization notification: Get a notification when you need to reauthorize Facebook for a permissions update. Can be turned on or off.
- Weekly Relate metrics email: Get an update on on performance and client engagement.
- Weekly Upcoming Posts Email: Get an email on Monday morning about all your scheduled posts for the week, including campaign posts.
- Post Notification - Publish (Video): Receive an email notification on the status of a video post published to your accounts. Can be turned on or off.
- Post Notification - Scheduled Publish (Video): Receive an email notification on the status of a scheduled video post or a campaign video post published to your accounts. Can be turned on or off.