This article will walk through how to set up an integration between the Mass Notification and the Web Central News Flash module.
When an alert is posted to a group in the Mass Notification, a News Flash item will be published to a designated News Flash category and the content will be posted to any applicable News Flash widgets.
Important Notes
When the News Flash item is created in Web Central, no stop date or time is set.
Alerts cannot be updated from the Mass Notification. Once the News Flash item is created by the integration, it must be manually modified from the Web Central back-end.
Subscriber options for email and SMS should be disabled for the News Flash categories used in the integration.
News Flash items can still be created and posted on the website separately, but would not be distributed through Notify Me.
Prerequisites
Set up your Web Central and Mass Notification credentials
Make sure the applicable Web Central News Flash category is set to Update Integration Hub
Instructions
Sign in to your site
Navigate to the Integrations tab and click + New Integration
Click the Simple integration card
Add a Short Description of the integration
Select Mass Notification as the Trigger and Website (Central) as the Action
Select the Applications for the trigger and action
Select the applicable Credentials for each product
Select Alert Sent from the Type drop-down and choose the Group from your Mass Notification instance that you wish to use when triggering an alert
Choose News Flash as the Module and select the News Flash Category in Web Central the alert should be added to
Click Next
Map fields from Mass Notification to Web Central as needed by dragging and dropping the tiles or typing directly into the field
Note:
Learn more about the Custom Text Input Fields above. Required fields include Name and Description. View how field mapping looks in Web Central. The available Mass Notification fields may differ depending on your custom alert form.
Description: There is a 250-character limit
Click Next
View an Overview and Test Instructions for your integration
Click Save
Enable your integration using the toggle under the Status column
The integration will now send Mass Notification alerts to the Web Central News Flash module
Mass Notification System Alert:
Web Central News Flash:
