Creating a New Play
You can set up your Plays to automatically include specific modules such as Forms, Library, and Weather, as well as any custom modules you've created templates for, like Task Boards and Status Boards, when starting an incident channel. Additionally, you can pre-load any known content from collections for each module.
🔑 ACCESS LEVEL REQUIRED: Account Owner or Editor
- Go to the Admin Area
- Expand Plays
- Select Plays
- Click New Play or select the edit icon next to the Play you want to modify
- Fill in the details (see below), check the boxes next to the modules you want enabled in that play, and include any pre-loaded collection data
- Click Save
Name (Required)
The name will appear in the start menu and will be the event / incident name. Choose a short name that ideally fits on a single line.
Description (Optional)
Give a brief description as to what the type of event / incident is.
💡 TIP: For example, you could have a play called Severe Winter Storm, your description could be one of the following:
- Severe Weather Response
- Blizzard, Heavy Snows, Ice Storm
Selecting An Icon (Required)
Select an icon for the play. This icon will be used to represent the play in the start menu. Press Show more to see more icons, and use keywords to search for the name of an icon.
Channel Status (Optional)
These are the different statuses or alert levels you can use to categorize an incident. They can be defined in Settings.
Alert all invited users that this incident was created
This is where you can set the default for alerting users that a channel has been created.
- If Enabled by Default is configured as the alert setting, when creating a new channel an alert notification will be sent to invited users. Note, this can be overridden when starting a channel.
- If Disabled by Default is configured as the alert setting, when creating a new channel no alert notification will be sent to invited users. Note, this can be overridden when starting a channel.
- If Always Enabled is configured as the alert setting, when creating a new channel an alert notification will always be sent to invited users.
- If Always Disabled is configured as the alert setting, when creating a new channel no alert notification will be sent to invited users.
Modules
Here you can specify what modules should be turned on when you start this play. You can also select what data from collections you want available in the different modules. The articles below may help in configuring and populating your team's data:
