Configure Notification Messages

Notification messages appear at the top right corner of the document pane when you work with interactive PDF forms, PDF/A files, or PDF files under shared review or email review, etc.

Audience:

Organizations looking to customize Foxit PDF Editor before deploying it to their knowledge workers. 

In this article:

• Deploy Foxit PDF Editor with custom Outlook add-in settings
  • Configure & Deploy Notification Messages using the Foxit Customization Wizard tool (MST)
  • Configure & Deploy Notification Messages using registry
  • Configure & Deploy Notification Messages using command line
  • Configure & Deploy Notification Messages using GPO
• Manually disable notification messages

Customize Notification Messages using the Foxit Customization Wizard tool

1. Click on the Preferences Tab
2. Scroll down to "Notification Messages"
3. Select one of the options to customize, see below the screenshot
4. Select "Enable configuration for Notification Messages"
   • This will Enable all the notifications and prevent users from disabling them

UNcheck "Show the message which affects the next step" to disable the following notifications:

• The OCR notification: lets users know the document is not editable.
• The Shared Review notification: lets users know the document has been updated.

UNcheck "Show the notification related message" to disable the following notifications:

• The Field notification: lets users know there are fillable fields in a document.
• The Digital Signature notification: lets users know the document contains digital Signatures. 

UNcheck "Show PDF/A message again" to disable the following notifications:

• The PDF/A notification: lets users know the document is a PDF/A file.

Customize Notification Messages using registry

Navigate to:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit PDF Editor 11.0\Preferences\General

Give "bBubbleMsgAffects" a value of "0" to disable the OCR and Shared Review notifications. 

Give "bBubbleMsgNotification" a value of "0" to disable the Field and Digital Signature notifications.

Give "bBubbleMsgPDFA" a value of "0" to disable the PDF/A notification. 

Customize Notification Messages using command line

It is not possible to do this via command line.

Customize Notification Messages using GPO

1. Open Group Policy Editor
2. Navigate to Foxit PDF Editor > Preferences 
3. Click on Notification Messages
4. Select "Enabled"
5. Check the setting you'd like to customize

Manually customize Notification Messages

1. Open Foxit PDF Editor and navigate to the Preferences Tab
2. Select Preferences
3. Select General
4. UNcheck the Notification Message you'd like to disable