Exercise 3.4: Sending an announcement e-mail to all users in your organization

In this exercise, you will use announcements to notify your users of important information for your organization.

Overview

Announcements are e-mails sent by SmartCloud iNotes® administrators to all SmartCloud iNotes users in their organization.

In this exercise, you will:

Send an announcement e-mail to all users in your organization from the SmartCloud iNotes Administration panel
Check the status of an announcement e-mail in the SmartCloud iNotes Administration panel

Step	Action
1	Log in and navigate to the Administration panel. For detailed steps, see the procedure document: Accessing the Administration Panel.
2	Click iNotes.
3	Click Announcements in the Mail section.
4	Create a test message that looks like the message in the image below:
5	Click Send.
6	Check the status of the announcement by clicking on the announcement and viewing the announcement State. After the announcements are sent, they are listed as Completed in the iNotes > Announcements panel. The initial state is "being processed."
7	Click Back to Announcements.
8	Note that the announcement status is now Completed.