Setup And Manage Notifications And Messages For Work Orders

  1. Click on the ‘Settings’ icon on the right side of your screen, adjacent to your profile picture.
  2. Now, click on ‘Service Activities’ from the left menu, followed by clicking on ‘Work Orders’ from the middle section
  3. Now, click ‘Notifications’ from the left menu. There are following types of notifications that you can create depending-

- When a Work Order  is ‘Created’

- When a Work Order is ‘Updated’

- When the ‘Status’ of Work Order changes

- When Work Order is ‘Assigned’

- ‘Reminder’ notifications 

- ‘Overdue’ notifications related to Work Order

 

For all types of notifications, you need to follow a similar kind of process to create the notification and set up their message copy/templates. The steps will be-

  1. Click the type of notification you want to create. Eg. ‘Created’
  2. In the middle section, you will see three types of notifications that you can set- ‘Email’, ‘Push’ i.e. mobile app push notifications and ‘SMS’ i.e. text messages notifications
  3. To create any of these types of notifications, click on the respective tab of ‘Email’, ‘Push’ or ‘SMS’ and then click ‘Add new’ 
  4. Fill respective field and setup the template content/copy you want to use. For every field, there is a tooltip with an icon that you can refer to learn more about what that field does and what information is needed
  5. For ‘Overdue’ and ‘Reminder’ types of notifications, there is an additional field named ‘Frequency’ in the panel that opens when you click ‘Add New’. In ‘Duration’ field, you can put how frequently you want these notifications to be sent. 
  6. Once you have finished filling in all the details, Click ‘Save’. If you select ‘Save Default Template’, the system will save this template as a default for all three types of notifications i.e. ‘Email’, ‘Push’ or ‘SMS’ provided you also select ‘Add Push Template’ and ‘Add SMS template’ from the bottom

Once saved, these notifications will be sent to the respective stakeholders(Actors) you have selected whenever these activities are performed.

These steps can be followed to create any type of notification copy(template).