The final tab is where you can change settings regarding how notifications are handled.


The two options for enabling notifications are between email and telephone notifications. They can be enabled or disabled individually, meaning that you can have any combination of email notifications being sent, phone notifications being sent, both being sent, or none.



The ‘Time to wait’ settings define the duration of time between notifications. They work as follows (assuming the personnel has the relevant settings enabled):


1. After an assignment is created, the system will send an email notification to Personnel 1.


2. After waiting X minutes without a response from the personnel, the system will then phone call Personnel 1.


3. After Y minutes with no response, the system will email Personnel 2.


4. When there is no response for X minutes, the system will call Personnel 2.


5. After Y minutes without a response, the cycle continues.


Below that section is the notifications schedule.



These times are all meant to set what times of the day your notifications should be sent out during. Any day that isn’t checked is considered disabled, and no notifications will be sent out for new assignments on those days. For days that are checked, notifications will only be sent out between the ‘from’ and ‘to’ times. This is to prevent personnel from getting phone calls in the middle of the night, for example.


If ‘every day’ is checked, that it will apply that schedule to every day of the week.



Lastly, the dispatch settings determine if and at what point the system will begin dispatching (notifying) your personnel, and how it does it.


Dispatch Immediately
Causes notifications to be sent out as soon as a new shift is created. This cannot be changed on a shift-by-shift basis.
Manually dispatch
Causes no notifications to be sent out. You will need to manually select dispatching for each shift. This cannot be changed on a shift-by- shift basis.
Ask prior to each assignment
Shows a dropdown box (see pg 13) which will ask you, when creating a new shift through either the New Request or Quickshift methods, how you want to handle dispatching for that request.

In this case, for Client Panel users, the default option will be ‘Manually dispatch’.