Messages
Messages
This screen allows you to send text, email messages, or phone calls to your users. Individual users can be selected or groups of users may be selected.
Some SMS (Text Messages) will be cropped by certain providers to 160 characters if the message is longer than that. The Message Length number refers to the number of characters left for possible SMS limits rather than the length of your message. This will tell you how many chars you can type until possible truncation by some systems. This count takes into account the length of the sender’s name, and the length of the return email address - (notifications@missionmanager.net or whatever it is configured as).
How messages are sent, return addresses and phone numbers, and other message settings can be configured in the Configuration screen.
Mission Manager can be interfaced with a phone message line for callout messages and can be used to make phone calls to your members. See the Configuration screen for more information about setting up these features.
Return Address allows you to specify the return email address receivers will reply to if they reply to your email or text messages. If this field is left blank, the email address will default to what is specified in the Configuration screen.
The Show Only check boxes allow you to specifically filter the member list based on member qualifications. The Dropdown box at the end of this list allows you to specify if the members must match all of the checked boxes, or the other option is any of the checked boxes. The Show Only list can be customized in the Configuration screen.
The Message History button will show the history of message sent. The range of the history can be selected in the dropdown range. only system administrators have access to this feature.
The Responses button will take you to the Responses screen that will show member responses to missions or messages. When on the Responses screen pressing the Send Message button to return to the Messages screen.
The following is a video tutorial of the Messages Screen:
