The dashboard contains the OLOTech internal mail system, the system overview and the external alert system.  It is where most user will connect.

Major subsections:

Inbox

New message

Overview

Print

History

Alerter

User preferences

 

 

 

Inbox (Back to Dashboard)

The inbox display all messages received, from the system or from other users. You can view messages by clicking on them.

 

To delete or move the messages, select them using their checkbox and move them to the desired folder using the right handed choice.

 

While viewing a message, you can use the print, reply, forward or delete features.

 

New message (Back to Dashboard)

This screen allows you to write a new message. You can send it to specified users or to user groups. Use the lookup functions to find the proper names.

 

You can, optionally, attack a file to the message.

 

The message supports HTML text. Once sent, the message is found in your sent items folder.

Overview (Back to Dashboard)

The overview display your notification who possess a process of overview type and are send as messages. You can view important information and information breakdowns. You can click on blue numbers to go directly to the search page, allowing you to see the numbered items. You can also click on the images to go directly to the searches.

 

The overview display only one division at a time. To switch between divisions (when available and correctly setup) use the drop down list at the top of the overview.

 

Note: overviews are displayed in accordance to the notifications. If you want to modify your overview, add, edit or delete  your notifications. If you delete overview messages in your inbox, the deleted information will no longer appear for that day.

 

Note: The overview is calculated on a daily basis. You can see the information date and hour on the top of the screen.

Print (Back to Dashboard)

Use this screen to print your messages, your last edited items or your assigned project activities.

History (Back to Dashboard)

This page offers a quick glance at the last actions performed and at the assigned project activities.

 

Last edited items

This section display the last modified entries. You can view their type, their code or number and the date of the modification. You can always click on the items to go into visualisation.

Assigned project activities

This section offers you a glance at the activities that are planned for the current day, either opened, current or completed. You can click on the items to go to the project containing those activities.

Alerter (Back to Dashboard)

The alerter screen allow you to see and modify all automated messages the system can send out automatically.

 

Notification

The notifications correspond to messages sent by the system upon certain events.  To view or create a notification, you must first select the desired notification category from the proposed choices.

 

Add notification

Select at first the process (the event you want to be raised or expressed in the message) and the action to perform.

You can decide to send email, SMS, faxes  or internal messages.

When you click on next, more options will be offered to customize your notification. Those choice may vary in accordance to the selected process and action.

 

Process list

 

 
Dynamic processes (user raised processes)

Those processes can be sent after a number of hours. This insure, for example, that an edition alert will be sent only once for a selected product, even if you make 10 modifications to it.

 
Batch processes (system raised processes)

Those processes are sent at a pre-defined time.  Set the time for the batch to run. Since some batch processes can take a lot of time, it is generally advised to run them when the system is not in use or when the usage is at a low peak (at night time or on week ends, for example). To enforce a limited connectivity, you can set the user accounts log in time.  

 

 
Overview processes (system raised processes)

Those processes are generally executed at midnight, and fill the system overview (internal messages only).

 

Edit notification

You can modify a notification, it's title, content and even recipients. Select the edit notification button to do so.

Note: You cannot change the notification process or action. If you want to change those informations, delete the notification and create a new one.

 

Delete notification

 

Deleting a notification will immediately affect the system behavior. No more alerts will be raised. for this notification.

Note: Existing messages will still be available

Note: Pending alerts (external messages) for this notification will not be sent out.

Pending alerts

The pending alerts are the events that were triggered by the notifications (user or system), but that are not already sent.

You can view the alerts information, the object that triggered it and the time of the trigger. Information about the next alert(s) are also displayed. The countdown is the time when the alert will be available to be sent, and not when it will actually be sent.

You can delete a selected pending dynamic alert (batch will be removed by themselves) by clicking on the remove button.

 

User preferences (Back to Dashboard)

User can edit their own preferences.

They can change their user name, password,  startup page and language and edit their dashboard features, such as their messages folders, and items to display in the history.