Managing notifications related to collaboratively edited electronic documents based on user roles

A shared storage system, comprising:

• a server computer comprising:
• a network interface configured to connect the shared storage system to a computer network connected to a plurality of end user computers;
• a computer storage device;
• and a processing system executing a file system providing access to a plurality of electronic documents in the computer storage device;
• and
• the processing system further executing computer program code that, when executed by the processing system, configures the server computer to be comprising:
• an activity service operative to process, and store in the computer storage device, activity data representing actions related to the plurality of electronic documents, the activity data including, for an action related to an electronic document, an identifier of the action, an identifier of a type of the action, and an identifier of a user performing the action;
• and
• a notification service operative to process the activity data, according to a mapping of actions to user roles, to associate additional users with the actions in the activity data according to the user roles;
• wherein the server computer is further operative to process the activity data for an electronic document to determine roles for users of the electronic document.

A computer-implemented process comprising:

• processing activity data representing actions related to a plurality of electronic documents, the activity data including, for an action related to an electronic document, an identifier of the action, an identifier of a type of the action, and an identifier of a user performing the action;
• storing the activity data in a computer storage device;
• processing the activity data, according to a mapping of actions to user roles, to associate additional users with the actions in the activity data according to the user roles;
• and
• tracking user interaction data for the additional users with respect to the activity data.