Overview
This article will show you how to create a Post.
Important Note
- Available options/settings may change depending on which Post Methods, Social Media outlets, and Integrations you choose.
Instructions
- Click New Post
- Select your Post Method(s)
- Email: Will send an email
- Text/SMS: Will send a text message
- Call (TTS (text-to-voice)/Voice): Will send a pre-recorded call
- AlertMe Mobile App: Will post a notification to the AlertMe Mobile App
- Alert Manager App: Will post a notification to the Alert Manager App
- Dynamic SMS/TTS: Akin to a picture within a message; may display as an animation
- RSS Post: Will post on the RSS feed
- CAP: Common Alerting Protocol
- Note: Your post options will vary based on the Post Methods that you choose.
- Select Social Media outlets to post to
- Facebook: Will post to Facebook
- Twitter: Will post to Twitter
- Choose to post to integrations, such as Beacon & Desktop
- Note: Available integrations may vary from site to site.
- Choose Recipients (Locations, Groups, or choose via Map)
- Select Regroup Locations: (Optional) Choose a location
- Groups: (Optional) Choose group(s)
- Note: You can click Select All to send to all groups.
- Note: You must either choose a Location or Groups.
- Show additional options: Click to select an unlimited amount of users
- Select Phone Type
- Work: Work phone
- Home: Home phone
- Cell: Cell/mobile phone
- Other: Another type of phone
- Review your Sender information
- Email From: Email address the email will send from
- Email Reply-to: The Email address that receives replies
- Caller ID: Number that makes the phone call
- Caller Name: Name of the owner of the Caller ID
- Create your Email and Text/SMS message(s) in Compose Message
- Choose Template: If applicable, choose to apply a template
- Subject: Create a subject heading
- Email Message: Create email body content
- Attach Files: Search, select, and upload files from your computer to attach to the email
- Accepted Attachment File Types: word, xls, pdf, jpg, jpeg, png, mp4, bmp, gif, txt
- Text (SMS) Message: See our article Send a Text/SMS Notification
- Same as Email Message: Check this box to make the Text Message content the same as your Email content
- Enable message auto-translation to user's preferred language: Message will automatically translate into the user's preferred language
- Exclude these languages from translation: Choose languages to exclude from being a translation option
- Preview Translation: View a preview of a translation
- Note: You must have someone subscribed to the group you are sending to in another language, otherwise it will not allow you to preview the message in another language.
- Current Language:
- Select Current Language: Select the primary language
- Exclude these languages from translation: Select languages that users cannot translate into
- Create/choose your voice message for Calling options in Call
- Text to Speech: Automated voicing will read aloud your email/text message in the phone call
- Recorded Message: Choose to manually record a message to play over the call
- Choose to Save as a template, Save as a Quick Post, or Schedule for later
- Note: Schedule for later will present you with times/dates to send out the post.
- Select to Preview the current version of the post
- Click Post when ready to send
- Click OK to confirm your post
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