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Contacts

In order to send alert mails and SMS messages, contact must be created, specifying e-mail addresses and phone numbers to use for alerts.

Contacts can be created and maintained from the General Settings page of the Application Menu.

Click the Contacts button to display maintain the contacts spreadsheet specified in the Contacts Spreadsheet Path.

  • Active
    The active checkbox is used to enable or disable Contacts.
  • Id and Name
    Give the contact an id and a name.
  • Description
    Description is optional, and can contain more lines of text.
  • E-mail
    Specify the e-mail address to use for sending alert e-mails.
  • Language
    Specify the language used by the contact, used by alert messages and notifications.
  • Mobile Phone
    The mobile phone number is the phone number transferred as argument to the SMS Batch file when sending alert SMS messages.
  • Subscriptions
    A contact can subscribe to alert messages, so that the contact gets notified when an event occurs.
    The following alert types are supported:
    • E-mail messages and tables (HTML): Alert messages with both messages and tables in HTML format.
    • E-mail with messages (HTML): Alert messages with messages only in HTML format.
    • E-mail (Text): Alert messages in plain text.
    • SMS: Text messages (plain text). Filter groups can be applied for a contact subscription, so that the contact only gets alerts for stations belonging to a specified filter group.