Volunteer Captains can use these steps to create an email from a template to correspond with your volunteers. Use this option when emailing to all jobs or a series of jobs within one event.
- Log in to https://activeworks.active.com/login.faces
- Click Email tab across top
- Click New
- Choose Select an existing template
- Check box for desired template name per event
- Click OK
- Preformatted template will populate as selected by Volunteer Director
- Note: Do not change images or colors in template as they align with event branding standards
- Click into text box YOUR MESSAGE GOES HERE to add desired text
- Edit font size and position using black toolbar at top of message field
- Use Insert Object tool to add auto-populated or merged fields to email, like {volunteer_name} or {job_start_time}
- Click Save and Complete
- Add desired reply-to email address in Reply to field
- Add Subject for email subject line
- Add Description for internal email description
- Input email addressed by typing individual email addresses or click Add list to choose from list of jobs
- Click Save & continue
- Preview email
- Choose either send Now or Later and choose date and time