Send notifications to AlertFind users within a geographical location
This feature has the following requirements:
- Enabling map-based notifications: Map based notifications must first be enabled by the administrator before you can use this feature.
- Selecting individual users: A user's map coordinates must be in the database. This is done through the User Editor Location Preference window. See Enter or change a user’s location in AlertFind.
- Selecting one or more Sites: Sites must be created and populated with Groups of users. See Create A Site.
To send a notification to AlertFind users within a geographical location:
- From the Alert Console, click the Compose icon.
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Click the Geographical Location Icon,
, which is to the right of the To text field.
- With your finger or mouse, move the displayed map to select the general map area that you want.
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Click the polygon icon
. Then select a specific geographical location by clicking on the map to start drawing the polygon. Next, click at each corner of the polygon. Double-click on the last point, or click on the first point, to enclose the area.
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If you want to move the polygon, click the hand icon,
, using the hand cursor, click-and-hold on the polygon and drag it to the new position.
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To edit the shape of the polygon, using the hand cursor,, click-and-hold on a corner point and move it to the desired location.
- To create new points, click-and-hold on a new-point dot between the existing corner points, and drag to the desired location.
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When using the hand cursor, you can click on the Undo icon,
, to undo the last action.
- Draw more polygons, if desired.
- All users and Sites located within the polygon(s), and members of the selected team context, will be recipients of the Notification.
- The Currently Selected Users and Currently Selected Sites counts update when a polygon is added, changed or moved.
NOTE
No individual polygon within a group can be deleted by itself. To delete all polygons, if the location(s) hasn't been saved, click Cancel. Otherwise, click Done and return to the composition window and delete the Temporary Group that corresponds to the polygons to be deleted.
- Click Done to save the area and return to the notification composition screen, or Cancel if you choose not to save a location.