How do I include a group of administrators on an email I'm sending?

CC or BCC an Admin or Group of Admins into an email

If you want to create the ability to CC or BCC existing administrators from your organisation, use the Admin Contact Group functionality

As the name suggests, this is for your Complyfile Admin team-members only. You cannot add a volunteer to an Admin Contact Group. And you can't CC or BCC a volunteer into an email.

You can however now:

  • CC or BCC a group of your Admin team-members;
  • or CC or BCC an individual Administrator too.

Watch this quick 3 minute overview of Admin Contact Groups:

Why would you want to CC or BCC other Admins?

Sometimes you want to keep other team members in the loop on your contacts with volunteers. Using the CC or BCC functionality enables you to send an email, but keep other team members in the loop.

Remember: CC'd email addresses are viewable by all recipients of the email

Warning: only use the CC field if you're happy to display those CC'd email addresses to all recipients of the email

If you'd prefer not to display all Administrator email recipients' email addresses, use the BCC field instead. 

I.e. If you want to hide from view the email addresses of the Admins you copy in, use the BCC field instead. That way your applicant/volunteer won't see other email addresses included on the message.

See the detailed How to use - Matrix at the foot of this article if you need help.

Create a new Admin Contact Group

First thing you'll need to do is to create a 'Contact Group' of Admins. We call this an Admin Contact Group.

You'll see the functionality near the foot of your Org Settings page:

A Super Admin (or administrator with equivalent high-level privileges) can:

  • create a new Admin Contact Group  (e.g. 'Leinster Admins')
  • add an existing Admin's name (and email) to the newly created Admin Contact Group
  • go back and remove an Admin from the list as well
  • change the Admin Contact Group name
  • save it
  • see what Admin Contact Group an Admin belongs to
  • delete the Admin Contact Group

Where can I use this functionality?

The functionality is available whenever you see the Send Email pop-up box.


Note:


  • This is not for system generated notifications
  • This instead is for when Admins want to send a customised bespoke email (i.e. one you write in your own words) to an applicant or a volunteer.

So you'll find it on the:

  • Toolkit on the home page
  • Volunteer profile page clicking the big + button that shows the Send Email button
  • Clicking the email of a volunteer in Manage Volunteers
  • The actual CC/BCC appears under the volunteer's pre-populated email address, above the Subject line.

(The only exception to this is in the Send Email to Referee pop up. For data privacy reasons, the functionality is deliberately unavailable here).

History Record format

We'll auto-generate a History Record when an Admin makes any of the above changes. A History Record will appear:

  • on the home page of the App
  • on the page of the Super Admin who makes the change
  • And on the page of an Admin who is added to or removed from a Contact Group by  another Admin

Role Restrictions

Only Super Admins (or administrators with similar privileges) can create, edit or make changes to an Admin Contact Group.

Creating a new Admin Contact Group

Click the big + button to the right of the panel.

Give your new Admin Contact Group a name

Click 'Save'


Add an Admin to an existing Admin Contact Group

  • Click the 'Please Select' drop-down, choose your Admin Contact Group
  • Click 'Select' for the group to add an Admin to
  • Click the 'Please Select' drop-down to the left of the Add Administrator button
  • Click 'Add Administrator'

Can I add an applicant/volunteer to an Admin Contact Group?

No. This functionality is for Administrators on Complyfile only.

Remove an Admin from an existing Admin Contact Group

  • Click the 'Please Select' drop-down, choose your Admin Contact Group
  • Click 'Select' for the group 
  • Locate the name of the Admin you want to remove from the group
  • Click the + plus button to the right of their name
  • Click 'Remove'

How to use - matrix

Do any of the following

To...

 Do this...

Add an existing Admin

Select the + button, type the first 3 letters of the Admin name, and then select the Admin’s name from the pop-up menu

Prevent message recipients from seeing the addresses of other group members

Select BCC function

 Remove an Admin

 

Select the Admin’s name, choose Remove

 Admin Contact Group in use

 Admin Contact Group flexible functionality

 In order to…

 Use the…

Email either an individual Admin, or Admin Group

 'To' field

Email a volunteer, and CC in either an individual Admin, or Admin Group

 'CC' field

Email a volunteer, and BCC in either an individual Admin, or Admin Group

 ‘BCC’ field







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