Toast Notifications

Toast notifications are small, temporary messages that appear in the bottom-right corner of the screen to give you immediate feedback about the outcome of an action. They are designed to be informative without interrupting your workflow.

Toast Types

There are three types of toast notifications, each with a distinct colour:

  • Success (green) — confirms that an operation completed as expected. Examples: "Configuration saved", "Rules applied successfully", "Export ready for download".
  • Error (red) — indicates that something went wrong. Examples: "Failed to save rules", "Import failed — check your file format", "API request failed".
  • Info (blue) — provides neutral contextual information. Examples: "No changes to save", "Job already in progress".

Three toast notification examples: success in green, error in red, and info in blue, appearing in the bottom-right corner

Auto-Dismiss and Manual Close

Toasts auto-dismiss after a few seconds so they do not permanently obscure content. If you need more time to read a toast, move your cursor over it — this pauses the auto-dismiss timer. You can also manually close any toast by clicking the X button on the notification.

One Toast at a Time

MatchLogic displays a maximum of one toast at a time. This prevents the screen from becoming cluttered when multiple operations complete in quick succession. If a new toast arrives while one is already visible, the new one replaces the current one. This means that in rapid-fire scenarios, only the most recent notification will be visible.

Tip: If you triggered multiple saves or operations quickly and want to confirm each one succeeded, check the notification bell in the header — it provides a more complete history of recent events than toast notifications alone.

Common Scenarios

Toasts provide feedback across many parts of the application:

  • Saving configuration — a success toast confirms your match rules, cleansing workflow, or export settings were saved to the server
  • Validation errors — an error toast appears when a form submission fails validation, often with a brief reason
  • API failures — when the server returns an error response, an error toast surfaces the message so you know the operation did not complete
  • Job completion — a success toast appears when a background job (import, profiling, matching, export) finishes, often including a View Results button
  • Job failure — an error toast appears with a summary of what failed

Toasts with Action Buttons

Some toasts include a clickable button, most commonly View Results. This button navigates you directly to the relevant module page when a background job completes. It is equivalent to clicking the corresponding notification in the notification bell panel and is the fastest path from job completion to reviewing the output.

Note: Because only one toast is visible at a time, a "View Results" toast for a completed job may be replaced by a later toast before you have a chance to click it. If you miss the button, open the notification bell panel to find the same link.