Send Assignment Alerts in Workforce Planning
Objective
To send alerts for workforce assignments in Workforce Planning.
Background
Assignments allow you to manage your workforce by assigning resources to projects.
You can send assignment alerts to notify the assignees and share key information about their assignment such as when they have a new assignment or when there are updates to dates, times, projects or locations. See What is an assignment alert in Workforce Planning?
This tutorial shows how to send alerts right away, create drafts or programme them for later.
Things to Consider
- Required User Permissions:
- To send assignment alerts, '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 'View Assignments' and 'Create/Edit/Delete Alerts' granular permissions within the Workforce Planning tool. See Create Permissions Templates for Workforce Planning. - To receive assignment alerts via email, recipients must have the Enable Email tickbox marked and an Email Address entered in their personal information on the People List. See Edit People in Workforce Planning.
- To receive assignment alerts via SMS, recipients must have the Enable SMS tickbox marked and a Phone Number entered in their personal information on the People List. See Edit People in Workforce Planning.
- To receive assignment alerts through the Workforce Planning/LaborChart app, recipients must have the Enable Mobile Notifications tickbox marked. See Edit People in Workforce Planning.
- To send assignment alerts, '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:
- Assignment alerts can be sent to individuals or multiple assignees.
- Assignment alerts can be sent by text message, email or through the Workforce Planning/LaborChart Planning app. See What is the Workforce Planning/LaborChart App?
- Alerts are sent to recipients via the preferred communication method that is enabled on their profile. See Edit People in Workforce Planning.
- Message and data rates may apply when sending or receiving SMS messages.
- If custom assignment alerts are enabled for projects, they are sent instead of the default assignment alert. See Configure Default Assignment Alerts for Workforce Planning and Create Custom Assignment Alerts for Projects.
- Default Assignment Alerts can request a response, not custom alerts for projects. See Configure Default Assignment Alerts for Workforce Planning.
- Depending on their settings, people can respond to alerts by SMS, email or in the Workforce Planning/LaborChart app. See What messages and alerts can people respond to in Workforce Planning?
- Assignment alerts are not sent when bulk editing or bulk deleting workforce assignments. See Bulk Delete Workforce Assignments and Bulk Edit Workforce Assignments.
- From the Assignments List, you can send alerts for individual assignments or multiple assignments.
- From the Assignments Boards or Assignments Gantt, you can send assignment alerts for all assignments for project on a certain date or within a certain date range.
Prerequisites
Steps
You can send workforce assignment alerts from three (3) places in Workforce Planning:
- Assignments List
- Send alerts to individual or multiple assignees.
- Assignments Boards
- Send alerts to all assignees for a project for a certain date or within a date range.
- Assignments Gantt
- Send alerts to all assignees for a project for a certain date or within a date range.
Send assignment alerts from the Assignments List
From the Assignments List, you can send assignment alerts for individual assignments or multiple assignments.
- Navigate to the Company level Workforce Planning tool.
- Click Assignments and select Assignments List.
- Mark the tickboxes for the assignments for which you want to send the assignment alert.
- Click Batch Actions.
- Click Send Alerts and choose to:
- Send Immediately. Select this to send the alert immediately, then click Send.
Note: This will send the alert immediately based on the default or project assignment alert settings. - Programme. Select this to programme the alert to be sent in the future.
Note: You can edit or send the programmed alert at a later time. See Manage Programmed Assignment Alerts.- Select the Date and Time to send the alert.
- Click Save.
- Save Draft. Select this to save the alert as a draft. Then click Save.
Note: You can edit or send the draft at a later time. See Manage Draft Assignment Alerts.
- Send Immediately. Select this to send the alert immediately, then click Send.
Send assignment alerts from the Assignments Boards
From the Assignments Boards, you can send assignment alerts for all assignments for project on a certain date or within a certain date range.
- Navigate to the Company level Workforce Planning tool.
- Click Assignments and select Assignments Boards.
- Click the ellipsis for the project for which you want to send the assignment alert.
- Select Send Assignment Alerts.
- Select Current Viewing Day to send the alert to all assignees with an assignment on the date selected.
OR
Select Date Range to send the alert to all assignees with an assignment within the date range selected.- Start Date. Select the start date of the date range.
- End. Select the end date for the date range.
- Select Date and select the End Date to choose a specific end date for the range.
OR - Select Weeks and enter the Number of Weeks for the date range.
- Select Date and select the End Date to choose a specific end date for the range.
- Select when to send the alert:
- Send Immediately. Select this to send the alert immediately, then click Send.
Note: This will send the alert immediately based on the default or project assignment alert settings. - Programme. Select this to programme the alert to be sent in the future.
Note: You can edit or send the programmed alert at a later time. See Manage Programmed Assignment Alerts.- Select the Date and Time to send the alert.
- Click Save.
- Save Draft. Select this to save the alert as a draft. Then click Save.
Note: You can edit or send the draft at a later time. See Manage Draft Assignment Alerts.
- For the Alert that you choose, enter the information you would like to include in the Subject and Message.
- Add the Dynamic Tokens that you want to appear in your alerts, to customise the information for the person receiving the alert:
- Assignee's Name. The assignee's first and last name.
- Assignee's Email. The assignee's email address.
- Assignee's Phone. The assignee's phone number.
- Assignee's Job Title. The assignee's job title.
- Assignment Start Date. The assignment's start date.
- Assignment End Date. The assignment's end date.
- Assignment Start Time. The assignment's start time.
- Assignment End Time. The assignment's end time.
- Assignment Work Days. The assignment's work days.
- Project Name. The project's name.
- Project Address. The project's address.
- Project City. The project's city.
- Project State. The project's state.
- Project Postcode. The project's postcode.
- Project Country. The project's country.
- Project Number. The project number.
- Project Status. The project's status.
- Select the 'Message Type'
- Send Immediately. Select this to send the alert immediately, then click Send.
- Click Review Recipients.
- Click Send.
Send assignment alerts from the Assignments Gantt
From the Assignments Gantt, you can send alerts for all assignments for project on a certain date or within a certain date range.
- Navigate to the Company level Workforce Planning tool.
- Click Assignments and select Assignments Gantt.
- Select Projects.
- Click the ellipsis for the project for which you want to send the assignment alert.
- Select Send Assignment Alerts.
- Select Current Viewing Day to send the alert to all assignees with an assignment on the date selected.
OR
Select Date Range to send the alert to all assignees with an assignment within the date range selected.- Start Date. Select the start date of the date range.
- End. Select the end date for the date range.
- Select Date and select the End Date to choose a specific end date for the range.
OR - Select Weeks and enter the Number of Weeks for the date range.
- Select Date and select the End Date to choose a specific end date for the range.
- Select when to send the alert:
- Send Immediately. Select this to send the alert immediately, then click Send.
Note: This will send the alert immediately based on the default or project assignment alert settings. - Programme. Select this to programme the alert to be sent in the future.
Note: You can edit or send the programmed alert at a later time. See Manage Programmed Assignment Alerts.- Select the Date and Time to send the alert.
- Click Save.
- Save Draft. Select this to save the alert as a draft. Then click Save.
Note: You can edit or send the draft at a later time. See Manage Draft Assignment Alerts.
- Send Immediately. Select this to send the alert immediately, then click Send.
- Click Edit Alert Template to edit the assignment alert.
- For the Alert that you choose, enter the information you would like to include in the Subject and Message.
- Add the Dynamic Tokens that you want to appear in your alerts, to customise the information for the person receiving the alert:
- Assignee's Name. The assignee's first and last name.
- Assignee's Email. The assignee's email address.
- Assignee's Phone. The assignee's phone number.
- Assignee's Job Title. The assignee's job title.
- Assignment Start Date. The assignment's start date.
- Assignment End Date. The assignment's end date.
- Assignment Start Time. The assignment's start time.
- Assignment End Time. The assignment's end time.
- Assignment Work Days. The assignment's work days.
- Project Name. The project's name.
- Project Address. The project's address.
- Project City. The project's city.
- Project State. The project's state.
- Project Postcode. The project's postcode.
- Project Country. The project's country.
- Project Number. The project number.
- Project Status. The project's status.
- Click Review Recipients.
- Click Send.