Communication

Types of communication

In Bricsys 24/7 we have four types of communication

• Notifications
• Notes
• Annotations
• Messages

Notifications

Easily inform other project members that can view the item about it. Typical examples are sending a notification about a newly uploaded document, a selection of documents etc.

Add the recipients, just like you would do for an email, write a subject and a message. The recipients will receive an email with your message and the items you are referring to.

Notes

Just like sticky notes, a note is visible over all the revisions of a document. You can use private notes or public notes.

Private note

When you select members of the project in the note, the note becomes private and only those who are a recipient of a note can view the note.

Note that administrators can enable a feature allowing them to view all communications, including private communication.

Annotations

A great way to mark an area of a document and comment about it. Annotations can only be created in our online viewer. Simply choose the type of annotation you want to add, select the area and add your message.

By default only a subject is shown, click on the more link to add a description to your comment.

You can send private annotations that are visible only for selected users, or public annotations that can be seen by all users who have access to the document.

Annotations are revision based, this means you cannot see the annotation of previous revisions when viewing the latest version of the document.

Messages

Messages works just like your email does but it doesn’t get lost, keep track of your emails. It’s a great way to communicate effectively with other project members and not lose the information.

The administrator of the project can also enable email forwarding for a specific email address. This makes it possible to send an email to the specific email address and have the email appear in Bricsys 24/7.

Recipients

Keep in mind that only project members who can view the item will be selectable. Simply type the name of a project member or select one of the mail lists setup by the project administrator.

After selecting a mail list, you can click on the list to deselect certain members.

If you cannot send a notification or assign members in a note or mail message, this means that the administrator of the project did not give you access to communicate with other members of the project.

Communication preferences

Easily let Bricsys 24/7 know which communication you wish to receive in your inbox and when.

Open the profile dialog by clicking on the picture on the right top corner of Bricsys 24/7.