Configuring broadcast messages
Procedure
1. Add the TSI Broadcast messages to the System Settings navigation group.
This step is required only once.
2. Go to System Settings > Broadcast messages and click Add on the action panel.
3. Fill out the required fields:
Field | Description | ||
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Code | Initially, when adding a new broadcast message, a code is autogenerated. You can opt to overwrite this code if necessary. | ||
Start date | Enter a start date-time for the message. It will be displayed as from this date-time onward. | ||
End date | Enter an end date-time for the message. It will cease to be displayed after this date-time. | ||
Message | Enter the text that you want to display to the application users. You can enter as many as 500 characters. When clicking Save, this message will be propagated to the Translated name field.
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Translated name | Here you can provide translations for the message in the languages available in your application. |
4. On the action panel, click Link user group to select the user group whose users should be notified.
 | If you do not specify a user group, the message will be shown to all Planon application users. |
5. On the action panel, click Active.
Your message will now be available for messaging. Every 15 minutes, a timer will check whether a new message needs to be published to users currently logged in.
| | • Activating/inactivating messages allows you to reuse existing messages - for example for recurring operations. • You can toggle between Active/Inactive, but if you activate the same message multiple times, the linked users will also get multiple messages as these are technically distinctive. |
• Broadcast messages is currently only available for the web client.
• When a user dismisses a message by clicking Close (x), this action is stored in the local browser. When a user logs on, this storage is used to verify whether a message still needs to be displayed.
If a user logs on using a different browser, the message is displayed again.