Communications
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.