Create groups

Add a new group to the Address Book so that the contacts in the group can receive simultaneous notifications regarding the progress and outcome of FactoryTalk AssetCentre schedules, tasks, and other system-related events. Create contacts to notify the individuals in a group.
Groups cannot be imported from another email program. More than one user can create groups simultaneously.
Prerequisites
  • To create groups, you must be granted
    View Address Book
    and
    Edit Address Book
    permissions.
To create groups
  1. Do one of the following to open the
    New Group
     dialog box:
    • Select
      View
       >
      Address Book
      , click the dropdown arrow after the
      New
       button, and then select
      Group
      .
    • Select
      Tasks
       >
      Add New Address Book Group
      .
  2. Complete the information in the
    New Group
     dialog box. For the group's contacts to receive notifications, add members to the group. If there are no members to add to the group, click
    Cancel
    , and then create contacts.
    TIP:
    If in your existing email system you have a group with an existing email address (for example, a group of electricians with the email address
    AllElectricians@MyCompany.com
    ) to which you want to send notifications through AssetCentre, you can use that existing group's email address. Simply create a contact and give it a name (for example,
    Electricians
    ) and enter the group's email address (
    AllElectricians@MyCompany.com
    ) as the contact's default email address. The individual email addresses of the electricians group are not added to the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Address Book.
  3. Click
    OK
    .
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