Communicator provides for the manual creation of messages to support an electronic mail facility. Communicator screens are grouped by function. Communicator includes the following screens.
- Send Messages (CO.MMT.00)
- Alert Manager (CO.ALM.00)
- Communicator to Mail (CO.MAL.00)
- View Messages (CO.CMD.00)
1. Open SL -> Project -> Project Controller -> Maintenance -> Employee and Resource Maintenance
2. Enter Employee ID , Name , Email user name and Select any one in “Send mail To” list
Send Messages (CO.MMT.00):
Send Messages (CO.MMT.00) allow anyone with access to Communicator to format, maintain, and send Communicator messages to other employees within SL.
1. Open Send Messages (CO.MMT.00) under Foundation -> Communicator.
2. Enter your employee ID in from field. You can secure your employee ID by setting up employee
passwords using Password Maintenance (PA.PWD.00).
Note: - Refer the beneath link about Password Maintenance (PA.PWD.00).
3. Enter the employee ID of the recipient in To field. This field is not secured by password protection.
4. Enter the text of the message in the Message Text area.
5. Click Save and Close.
Alert
Manager (CO.ALM.00):
1. Create groups for (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) which you will send notification messages.
2. It processes the entire alert group. It generates a notification message only if you set Select as Yes.
3. Enter or select an employee ID in Employee. To send the notification to a group of managers, select
one of the manager types that appear in the Manager list.
4. When you have finished configuring all notifications for the current alert group, click Save.
5. To process all notifications on the current alert group, click “Begin Processing”.
2. It processes the entire alert group. It generates a notification message only if you set Select as Yes.
3. Enter or select an employee ID in Employee. To send the notification to a group of managers, select
one of the manager types that appear in the Manager list.
4. When you have finished configuring all notifications for the current alert group, click Save.
5. To process all notifications on the current alert group, click “Begin Processing”.
View Messages (CO.CMD.00):
1. Employee views notifications using View Messages (CO.CMD.00), which displays all messages to
the selected user.
2. Functions such as Alert Manager (CO.ALM.00) or Time Review & Approval (TM.TRA.00).
When you enter your employee ID in particular Screen, all of your messages appear in the grid on
View Messages Screen.
3. When a new message arrives, status as New. If you change the message status from New to save, the
message appears below all messages that have a status of New.
4. When you select a message line, text Message appears in the lower part of the screen. Depending on
the type of message selected, different program buttons might appear beneath the text message.
Reply (button)
Reply is
available at any time to send a message back to another employee. Clicking the
button opens Send Messages (CO.MMT.00).
Project Net Profit (button)
When you
select a message clicking the button opens Project Net Profit (PA.PNR.00). It displays the overall project information with Amount and
units.
EAC Maint (button)
When you Clicking
the button EAC Maintenance (IQ.EAC.00). It
displays the Budget information
Communicator
to Mail (CO.MAL.00):
1. Communicator
to Mail (CO.MAL.00),
which delivers Communicator messages by using Microsoft
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).
2. VSTO allows Microsoft Dynamics SL
screens to communicate with “Microsoft
Office Outlook
through an add-in”.
3. This
add-in is named “Microsoft.Dynamics.SL.OutlookAddin” and is installed with the
Microsoft Dynamics SL .
4. The
user defines the intervals to check unsent mail through timer for automatically
“Wake up” (Ex:60 min)
5. Also
you can choose to process notifications manually by clicking “Mail Messages”.
Error Messages
Error
Messages display error messages from the mail system if any occur. Error
Messages have been normally empty.
Mail Messages (button)
Clicking Mail Messages
sends all new messages to the mail system immediately.
