Manage Scheduled Messages for Workforce Planning
Objective
To manage scheduled messages for Workforce Planning.
Background
You can schedule messages to send to people that you manage in Workforce Planning. This tutorial shows how to view, send, edit, and delete scheduled messages.
Things to Consider
- Required User Permissions:
- To send messages, 'Read Only' level permissions or higher on the Workforce Planning tool and 'Admin' level permissions within the Workforce Planning tool. See Create Permissions Templates for Workforce Planning.
OR
'Read Only' level permissions or higher on the Workforce Planning tool with the 'Create Messages' granular permission within the Workforce Planning tool. See Create Permissions Templates for Workforce Planning. - To receive messages via email, people must have the Enable Email checkbox selected, and an Email Address entered in their personal information on the People List. See Edit People in Workforce Planning.
- To receive messages via SMS, people must have the Enable SMS checkbox selected, and a Phone Number entered in their personal information on the People List. See Edit People in Workforce Planning.
- To send messages, 'Read Only' level permissions or higher on the Workforce Planning tool and 'Admin' level permissions within the Workforce Planning tool. See Create Permissions Templates for Workforce Planning.
- Additional Information:
- Messages sent in Workforce Planning do NOT appear in Emails in Procore.
- Message and data rates may apply when sending or receiving SMS messages.
- Messages that are only visible to you have a lock icon.
- Deleted messages are permanently removed from Workforce Planning and cannot be recovered.
Prerequisites
Steps
You can manage your scheduled messages in four (4) ways:
- View a Scheduled Message
- Send a Scheduled Message Now
- Edit a Scheduled Message
- Delete a Scheduled Message
View a Scheduled Message
To view a scheduled message, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the Company level Workforce Planning tool.
- Click Communications and select Messages.
- Click Scheduled.
- Click on the message to view.
Send a Scheduled Message Now
To edit a scheduled message, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the Company level Workforce Planning tool.
- Click Communications and select Messages.
- Click Scheduled.
- Click on the message to send now.
- Optional: Edit the message.
- Subject. Enter the subject of the message.
- Message. Enter your message.
- Click Add Recipients and select the person to send the message to.
Notes:- You can repeat this step to add additional recipients.
- If you need to remove a recipient, click the remove icon next to their name.
- Mark the checkbox 'All Users Can See This Message' if you want all users to be able to access the message in the Messages tool.
Note: The option can only be edited if the originally-scheduled message had the checkbox marked. See Send a Message for Workforce Planning.
- Move the toggle for 'Schedule Delivery' to the OFF position.
- Click Send Now.
Edit a Scheduled Message
To edit a scheduled message, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the Company level Workforce Planning tool.
- Click Communications and select Messages.
- Click Scheduled.
- Click the message to edit.
- Edit the message.
- Subject. Enter the subject of the message.
- Message. Enter your message.
- Click Add Recipients and select the person to send the message to.
Notes:- You can repeat this step to add additional recipients.
- If you need to remove a recipient, click the remove icon next to their name.
- Mark the checkbox 'All Users Can See This Message' if you want all users to be able to access the message in the Messages tool.
Note: The option can only be edited if the original draft had this checkbox marked. See Send a Message for Workforce Planning.
- Schedule Delivery. Select whether the message is scheduled for delivery.
- Leave the 'Schedule Delivery' in the ON position and enter the date and time for the scheduled message to be sent. Then click Schedule.
OR - Move the toggle for 'Schedule Delivery' to the OFF position to un-schedule the message. Then click Save to save it as a draft.
- Leave the 'Schedule Delivery' in the ON position and enter the date and time for the scheduled message to be sent. Then click Schedule.
Delete a Scheduled Message
To delete a scheduled message, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the Company level Workforce Planning tool.
- Click Communications and select Messages.
- Click Scheduled.
- Click the message to delete.
- Click Delete.