Assignors who are granted permission to the Communication product will be able to send messages to referees within the seasons, locations, or clubs for which they are assigning games. Messages can be composed, drafted, and sent to individual referees or filtered to create more targeted recipient lists.
Communication Dashboard Overview
Messages: Access your message center, where you can create new messages, view your sent history, view scheduled messages, and work on message drafts.
Compose New Message: Button to begin creating a new message.
Scheduled, Sent, Drafts: These tabs provide access to your scheduled, sent, and draft messages.
Message List: View a list of messages based on the tab you are working within (Scheduled, Sent, Drafts). The communication feature defaults to show sent messages first. Click on a message to view the entirety of its contents.
Creating and Sending Messages
To begin creating a new message, click the Compose New Message button.
Provide a message subject, text, and set your message to either Send Immediately or Schedule the message to send at a later date and time on the right side of the Compose New Message View.
3. Select your message recipients by either entering the email addresses (comma-separated) directly in the Direct Recipients field or by using the available filters for referees.
Available filters to define referee recipients include:
Assignor List: Choose a specific assignor list for referees within that list to receive a message
Referee Status: Active, Inactive, or Registered status referees
Referee Gender: Select a gender
Referee Rating Level: Referees with particular rating levels
Preferred Region: Referees with particular Preferred Region(s) (as defined on their Referee Preferences page)
Referee Custom Data: Referees with any number of answers to custom data questions. i.e., Concussion Certified?
Assignments: Referees with specific assignment details such as game date/ time/ days, status, location, season, and game number.
4. To view the list of recipients based on your filter selections, click the View Recipients button. The list of recipients will be inclusive of all referees that have any of the selected filter attributes associated with their profile.
5. To send your message immediately, click the Send Now button. If you are opting to send your message at a later time, select the Scheduled For option and set a future date and time. You must enter at least one recipient, a message subject, and message text to use the Scheduled For option.
Creating Message Drafts
If you are not ready to immediately send or schedule your message, you can also create a draft by filling out the Message Subject (at a minimum) and clicking the Save Draft button on the message view.
This action will add your draft message to your Drafts view. Access your drafts any time to continue to edit messages by clicking on the Edit button on each message detail view.
