Communications: groups, compose, and history

Communications is for reaching many parishioners at once — a lector reminder, a holy-day schedule, a parish-wide note. It has four parts, shown as tabs.

The four tabs

• Groups — the audiences you send to, either a fixed list of people or a rule (a "segment") that resolves itself. See Building a recipient group.
• Compose — write a message to a group and send it. See Sending a Mass Communication.
• Drafts — messages you saved to finish later.
• History — a read-only log of everything sent, with delivery counts.

What runs through it

• You always send to a group, never to a raw list typed each time — so audiences stay consistent and reusable.
• Sending is a single confirm; there is no separate approval queue.
• Email goes out when your parish email is connected; texting sends once your parish's texting is set up.

Tips

• For one-to-one pastoral replies, use Narthex instead — Communications is for the many.
• Groups never segment by sensitive categories like the sick list; those stay in Care.