What's New?
The Broadcast feature is available to send announcements to a large number of audiences through an SMS or an E-mail. Using this feature, you can schedule and auto-send all planned activities or announcements to the audience. Based on the urgency of the message to the audiences, you can schedule a planned activity or send it immediately. For more information, see Configuring Broadcast.
Following are the examples of the Broadcast uses:
- You can send a message about the Application site downtime to the users.
- You can send announcements such as office closure, office events, a reminder to surveys, and major organization restrictions with the Broadcast feature.
Benefits
Following are the benefits of using the Broadcast feature:
- Send announcements to a large number of audiences at once.
- Based on the urgency, announcements are made to the audience.
- Schedule and send an announcement to all the users.
Broadcast UI
- A new BROADCAST page is available for sending announcements to the users. For more information, see Configuring Broadcast.
Figure: BROADCAST page: LIST page - To add a new Broadcast announcement, you can click ADD NEW button from the ACTIONS panel on the BROADCAST page.
Figure: BROADCAST page: ADD NEW - SMS Screen
Figure: BROADCAST page: ADD NEW - E-mail Screen
- A new RECIPIENT pop-up page is added to display the list of recipients added to send the configured Broadcasts.
Figure: RECIPIENT LIST pop-up page
Configurations
On the BROADCAST page, select Admin > Advanced > Notification > Broadcast. For more information, see Configuring Broadcast.