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Use the Notifications bar to maintain the types of reminders and notifications sent to community members regarding the excursion.

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titleOpening the Notifications bar

To open the Notifications bar:

  1. Select Students > Excursion Maintenance from the SynWeb main menu.
    The Set Excursion Search Criteria window is displayed.
  2. Search for excursions. See Searching for excursions.
  3. Click the Notifications bar.

    Tip:
     You can click anywhere on a navigation bar other than the caption to open it.

    The Notifications bar of Excursion Maintenance is displayed.
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Excursion Maintenance - Notifications bar key fields and buttons

Fields

Field

Description

Send Announcement Notification

Select to send

a

an announcement notification

to all records

for all attendees who are current or future students in the grid area of the Attendees bar. See Excursion Maintenance - Attendees bar.

Note: If the attendee is a current or future student the notification is sent to the primary contact instead.

Tip: You can hover over the Image Added icon to view information about which community members receive announcement notification emails.
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Send Consent Reminders

Select to send a consent reminder

to all records

for all attendees who are current or future students in the grid area of the Attendees bar

that are

and not marked as either:

  • attending
  • apology.

See Excursion Maintenance - Attendees bar.  

Note: If the attendee is a current or future student the notification is sent to the primary contact instead.

Tip: You can hover over the Image Added icon to view information about which community members receive consent reminders emails.
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Send Reminder to Attendees

Select to send a reminder

notification to all records

for all attendees who are current or future students in the grid area of the Attendees bar

that are

and marked as attending. See Excursion Maintenance - Attendees bar.

Note: If the attendee is a current or future student the notification is sent to the primary contact instead.

Tip: You can hover over the Image Added icon to view information about which community members receive attendee reminder emails.
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Notification Text

Text to include in the notification.  

Note: This field is only displayed if one of the notification flags is selected.

How

Select to send the notification by either Email or SMS.  

Note: This field is only displayed if one of the notification flags is selected.

When

When the notification is to be sent. Click Image Modified to send the message now.  

Note: This field is only displayed if one of the notification flags is selected.

Buttons

Button

Description

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Select to send the notification now.

Once the process is complete you will see a summary window listing:

  • Total number of generated notifications
  • Number of notifications successfully sent
  • Number of notifications that failed to send.

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Additionally, details of the last message sent are updated and displayed alongside the relevant notification.

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Tip: You can click Image Added to view the notification history.
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Common fields

Field

Description

Search Filter

The Search Filter field is located at the top of the Excursion Selector. This field can be used to filter excursions by any of the information displayed in the Excursion Selector.
For example, type ski to only view excursions with the word ski in the excursion code or description.
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Common buttons

Button

Description

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Delete the currently selected excursion.

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Create a new excursion. See Creating new excursions.

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Copy the selected excursion. See Copying excursions.

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Delete the currently selected excursion.

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Display the Set Excursion Search Criteria window. See Searching for excursions.

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Customise how the bars are displayed. See Customising navigation bars in the Introduction manual.

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Click to refresh information for the selected excursion.