General Event Reminder Setup.#
This feature triggers a reminder mail on a given event to the required set of people in the organization. For example: Confirmation date to employees and managers, change in date of birth etc.,
The event reminder will have to be configured with a suitable mail template.
There is also an option to set this reminder only to a certain group of employees, by shortlisting them while creating the event.
Steps to set the event reminder:
- From the homepage go to System > Configure > Event Mail and click on Add Event.
- Select the event name and recipient type. For every recipient type selected, an appropriate input field will be displayed below. For example, if you select "External Entity - you will have to input the email id of the recipient. A Mail template will have to be created to trigger the mail for the event reminder.
- Under mail setting, select the required pattern to send the mail.
- Send mail before the event – the number of days mentioned here will trigger a mail
before the event date and the repeat number of days will send reminders on the pattern
specified. For example if the repeat every day is 2 – than the mail will be sent on every
alternate days, if it is 1 – than the mail will be sent everyday.
- Send mail on the event – the mail be sent on the day of the event.
- Send mail after the event – the mail will be sent after the event date and the repeat number of days will be similar to first option.
- In case you want to restrict the event to a certain set of employees, click on the radio button Short employee or check All Employees. Click on Save event to save the event.
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