Sending emails and SMS messages from grids

You can send emails and SMS messages from grids that list community members.

Examples

The Student Selector area of Student Maintenance lists students and you can either email or SMS:

• the students
• their parents or guardians.

The staff selector area of Staff Maintenance lists staff members that you can email or send SMS messages to.

Requirements:

Before you can:

• email community members, you need to have:
  • email addresses set up for the community members
  • a mail server that is configured to operate with SynWeb.
• send SMS messages to community members, you need to have:
  • mobile phone numbers set up for the community members
  • an SMS SMTP server or SMS service that is configured to operate with SynWeb, an SMS gateway.

How to:

• Send an Email or an SMS message to a community member selected from a grid. See Sending emails or SMS messages to a community member selected from a grid.
• Send an Email or an SMS message to most, if not all, community members listed in a grid. See Sending emails or SMS messages to multiple community members from a grid.
• Use replaceable fields in the body of email or SMS messages, to generate the email. See Using replaceable fields in the body of emails.
• Maintain email signatures. See Maintaining email signatures.
• Maintain email templates. See Maintaining email templates.

Last modified: 9/09/2014 2:56:37 PM