Communicator

Communicator provides for the manual creation of messages to support an electronic mail facility. Communicator screens are grouped by function. Communicator includes the following screens.

• Send Messages (CO.MMT.00)
• Alert Manager (CO.ALM.00) 
• Communicator to Mail (CO.MAL.00) 
• View Messages (CO.CMD.00) 

     1.  Open SL -> Project -> Project Controller -> Maintenance -> Employee and Resource Maintenance

    

 2.  Enter Employee ID , Name , Email user name and Select any one in “Send mail To” list 

Send Messages (CO.MMT.00):

Send Messages (CO.MMT.00) allow anyone with access to Communicator to format, maintain, and send Communicator messages to other employees within SL.

1.  Open Send Messages (CO.MMT.00) under Foundation -> Communicator. 

2.  Enter your employee ID in from field. You can secure your employee ID by setting up employee     

      passwords using Password Maintenance (PA.PWD.00).

         Note: - Refer the beneath link about Password Maintenance (PA.PWD.00).

                      http://ajitkannan-erp.blogspot.in/2013/05/additional-security-in-inquiry-and.html

3.  Enter the employee ID of the recipient in To field. This field is not secured by password protection. 

4.  Enter the text of the message in the Message Text area. 

5.  Click Save and Close.

Alert Manager (CO.ALM.00):

      

      1.  Create groups for (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) which you will send notification messages.
      2.  It processes the entire alert group. It generates a notification message only if you set Select as Yes.
      3.  Enter or select an employee ID in Employee. To send the notification to a group of managers, select
           one of the manager types that appear in the Manager list.  
     4.  When you have finished configuring all notifications for the current alert group, click Save.
     5.  To process all notifications on the current alert group, click “Begin Processing”. 

View Messages (CO.CMD.00):

    1.  Employee views notifications using View Messages (CO.CMD.00), which displays all messages to      

         the selected user. 

    2.  Functions such as Alert Manager (CO.ALM.00) or Time Review & Approval (TM.TRA.00).

         When you enter your employee ID in particular Screen, all of your messages appear in the grid on 

         View Messages Screen.  

   3.  When a new message arrives, status as New. If you change the message status from New to save, the 

        message appears below all messages that have a status of New.

   4.  When you select a message line, text Message appears in the lower part of the screen. Depending on 

        the type of message selected, different program buttons might appear beneath the text message.

Reply (button)

Reply is available at any time to send a message back to another employee. Clicking the button opens Send Messages (CO.MMT.00).

Project Net Profit (button)

When you select a message clicking the button opens Project Net Profit (PA.PNR.00). It displays the overall project information with Amount and units.

EAC Maint (button)

When you Clicking the button EAC Maintenance (IQ.EAC.00). It displays the Budget information

Communicator to Mail (CO.MAL.00):

      1.  Communicator to Mail (CO.MAL.00), which delivers Communicator messages by using Microsoft 

           Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).

      2.  VSTO allows Microsoft Dynamics SL screens to communicate with “Microsoft Office Outlook   

           through an add-in”.

      3.  This add-in is named “Microsoft.Dynamics.SL.OutlookAddin” and is installed with the 

            Microsoft Dynamics SL .

     4.  The user defines the intervals to check unsent mail through timer for automatically 

           “Wake up” (Ex:60 min)

     5.  Also you can choose to process notifications manually by clicking “Mail Messages”. 

Error Messages

Error Messages display error messages from the mail system if any occur. Error Messages have been normally empty.

Mail Messages (button)

Clicking Mail Messages sends all new messages to the mail system immediately.