Groups

Description - The main groups object contains objects for each group setup in PageGate. Groups allow a single message to be sent to several recipients.

Functions (accessible by right-clicking on the object)

Add - this allows you to add a new group to PageGate

Send Messages - this will send a message to all groups

Requeue Messages - this allows you to resend message that have already been sent to any group

Cancel Messages - this will cancel all pending messages for all groups

Group(s)

Description - Under the main group object, you will see a group object for each group that has been setup

Functions (accessible by right-clicking on the object)

Send Messages - this will send a message to all the members of this group

Requeue Messages - this allows you to resend messages that have already been sent to this group

Cancel Messages - this allows you to cancel all pending messages for this group

Delete - this will delete the selected group. Note: all of PageGate's modules are temporarily paused and then restarted when a group is deleted, so as not to remove a group that is currently being processed. When removing a large number of groups, it is most efficient to manually stop PageGate's modules, delete the groups, and then restart the modules.

Settings

Group - a short unique name to identify the group

Description - a longer description of the group

Enabled Services - check the interfaces that will be allowed as a source of messages for this group.

Advanced Options

On-Call Group - the on-call group feature allows for users to send a message to a group, and only the recipient(s) that is currently on-call is sent the message. See 'On-Call Groups' for more information

   

On-Call Schedule - this button allows you to set a schedule for which recipients in this group are on-call and when. See 'On-Call Groups' for more information.

Misc - Miscellaneous settings for the group

Four Extra Fields - these are user definable data fields that are stored with each group. The labels for these fields can be set under the 'Database' object. If the GUI Client interface is used, the information in these fields can be viewed by the users, and the recipient lists can be filtered by this information.

Hold Messages - the hold feature makes PageGate put messages, for a recipient or group, on hold until a later time. This is usually used to hold messages during the night, and then send all the queued messages in the morning at a reasonable hour. It may be useful to set up two recipients for a single pager/phone. One which will always get messages at any time, and another for less urgent messages, that will hold messages overnight.

Members - the members object allows you to select which recipients belong to this group. Clicking on a recipient moves it from one list to the other

Email - if the email service is enabled for this group, this object allows you to setup advanced email settings, like the ability to collect received email with a regular email client program, the ability to collect messages for this group from a remote mail server, the ability to forward a copy of each message received by this group to another email address, and the ability to create email aliases for this group.


WebPage - If the web service is enabled for this group, this button allows you to choose a template, and to enter information for the automatic generation of a webpage for this group. See the 'GetWeb' section for more details.