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

Opening the Notifications bar

To open the Notifications bar:

Select Students > Excursion Maintenance from the SynWeb main menu.
The Set Excursion Search Criteria window is displayed.
Search for excursions. See Searching for excursions.
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.

Excursion Maintenance - Notifications bar key fields and buttons
Fields

Field	Description
Send Announcement Notification	Select to send an announcement notification 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 icon to view information about which community members receive announcement notification emails.
Send Consent Reminders	Select to send a consent reminder for all attendees who are current or future students in the grid area of the Attendees bar 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 icon to view information about which community members receive consent reminders emails.
Send Reminder to Attendees	Select to send a reminder for all attendees who are current or future students in the grid area of the Attendees bar 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 icon to view information about which community members receive attendee reminder emails.
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 to send the message now. Note: This field is only displayed if one of the notification flags is selected.

Buttons

Button	Description
	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. Additionally, details of the last message sent are updated and displayed alongside the relevant notification. Tip: You can click to view the notification history.

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.

Common buttons

Button	Description
	Create a new excursion. See Creating new excursions.
	Copy the selected excursion. See Copying excursions.
	Delete the currently selected excursion.
	Display the Set Excursion Search Criteria window. See Searching for excursions.
	Customise how the bars are displayed. See Customising navigation bars in the Introduction manual.
	Click to refresh information for the selected excursion.