Working with Your Watch List Companies

The Watch List feature lets you follow companies for any changes in the company listing, and gives you access to any company-associated project development. The Watch List companies window gives you access to all of your Watch List companies, where you can set up email alerts and export the companies in your Watch List as a formatted Excel spreadsheet.

This section contains the following topics:

Adding companies to your Watch List

You can add companies to your Watch List when viewing a list of companies and from the company details page. A solid blue star next to a company listing or at the top of the details page indicates that the company is in your Watch List:

To add a company to your Watch List, click one of the following:

the star next to a company name in a list
the star at the top of the company list page.

Click the star again to remove the the company from your Watch List.

Accessing your Watch List companies

To access your Watch List companies,

click Watch List from the side bar menu.
At the top of the window, click to select to view your Watch List companies.

Result: All the companies you have selected to watch are displayed:

Tip: To access the individual details page for a company, click on the company name in the list

Using Watch List window options

The following table describes the options at the top of the company Watch List page that you can use for working with your Watch List companies.

Option

Description

Projects
Hidden Projects
Shared Projects

Select from the options to view your Watch List projects, your hidden projects, and the projects that you share with other members of your company:

See the following for more information about these options:

Remove from Watch List

Only available when companies are selected, use to remove companies from your Watch List.

To remove companies from your Watch List,

1

select either

the box at the top of the page to select all of your Watch List companies or
the individual company

2

Click Remove from Watch List.

Export

Export All

To export Watch List companies as an Excel spreadsheet,

click Export when individual companies are selected or Export All when all the companies in the list are selected. Note that you can export a maximum of 2500 records.
Click Export to Excel.
Result: The export runs and is available to open at the bottom of the window.

Actions

Use to remove companies from your list and to show or hide companies in your search results:

Select the companies for the action
Click Actions and then choose from the following to continue:
- Remove from Watch List - Removes the company from the list.
- View - The company listing is shaded gray in the company list page.
- Unview - The company listing appears normal in the company list page.

Setting up company update alerts

You can have email alerts sent to your email address each time there is an update to a company listing. You can set up alerts for individual companies or for all of your Watch List companies.

Note: The alert box is blue when the company has an alert set:

To add company alerts,

click the lightening bolt icon
- on the company line for an individual company or
- at the top of the list to select all companies
for all companies, click Yes to verify your selection.

Result: The alert is set. Click the icon again to remove the alerts.