Creating broadcasts

You can send messages to your entire account, to selected profiles within the account, and to clients. You can send messages about work in progress, system status, planned work, and so on. You can also view messages that were broadcasted to you from other groups in your account.

To create a broadcast

Click the Remedyforce Console tab.
From the View menu, select Broadcasts and click New.
Enter the required information about the broadcast.
For more information, see Broadcast fields.
Click Save.

When a record is created, the following action is recorded in the Broadcast History section that tracks the date and time when a record is created and the user details:

Changed Status to Opened
Created

Broadcast fields

The following table describes the fields that are available on the New Broadcast form and the actions that you must perform. Based on the layout that is assigned to your profile or the UI that you are using, some of the fields described in the table might not be available on the New Broadcast form that is displayed to you.

Note

If you use BMC Remedyforce in a Google Chrome browser, the fields in the Display Broadcast section might be displayed as dimmed but these fields are available to use.

For information about the items that are common on all of the forms, see Common items on forms in the Salesforce page layout.

Field	Description
Broadcast Details
Broadcast ID	Type a unique alphanumeric identifier that you want to assign to the current broadcast.
Category	Select the category that you want to assign to the broadcast.
Message	Type a short description of the outage or issue.
Scroll Message	Select the check box to display the content of the Message field in the Status Details section on the details pages of incidents, problems, broadcasts, tasks, and change requests. By default, this check box is selected. If you clear the Scroll Message check box, the message is not displayed in the broadcast ticker on the Remedyforce Console (incidents, problems, broadcasts, tasks, and change requests) and in Self Service. To see the broadcast, click View and follow broadcasts . Note: To display the broadcast message in Self Service, select both the Scroll Message and the Display in Self Service check boxes. Consider the following points about the display of the broadcast message and the ticker: The broadcast message can take up to five minutes to begin scrolling because the broadcast scrolling mechanism refreshes itself every five minutes. If multiple users are logged on to BMC Remedyforce, each user can view the new broadcast message depending on when their broadcast scrolling mechanism last refreshed. For example, if the broadcast scrolling mechanism had refreshed two minutes ago for a staff member, this staff member can begin to view the broadcast message in the next three minutes. The broadcast ticker displays only 255 characters of the broadcast message. If the broadcast message contains more than 255 characters, it is followed by an ellipses. To view the entire broadcast message, click View and follow broadcasts and select the required broadcast.
Description	Type the detailed description of the outage or issue. This description is appended to the Description field of the incidents that are associated with the broadcast.
Resolution	Type the steps that were taken to resolve the outage or issue.
Status and Priority Details
Impact	Select the impact that you want to assign to the broadcast. The level of impact and the urgency are used to calculate the priority of the broadcast.
Urgency	Select the urgency that you want to assign to the broadcast. The level of impact and the urgency are used to calculate the priority of the broadcast.
Priority	After you select urgency and impact values and then save the record, the Priority field is populated. The priority is calculated depending on the urgency and impact values that you have selected.
Status	Select the status that you want to assign to the broadcast. You can track the progress of the broadcast through its stages by using this field.
Broadcast Date and Time Details
Post Date	This field is populated with the system date when you save the broadcast. To scroll the broadcast at a future date, you can also select a future date.
Expiration Date	Select the date when you want to stop displaying the broadcast message.
Closed Date	The system date is displayed in the field after you click Close.
Assignment Details
Owner	After you save a broadcast, the name of the logged-on user who created the broadcast is displayed in this field. You can change the owner of the broadcast after saving it. For more information about changing broadcast assignment, see Changing the broadcast owner.
Display Broadcast
To Everyone	Select this check box if you want to display this broadcast to all.
To Profile	Select the profile of the users to whom you want to display the broadcast message. To enable this field, clear the To Everyone check box.
Display in Self Service	Select this check box to display the broadcast to all users of BMC Remedyforce Self Service. If you select the Display in Self Service check box, select the appropriate option from the following: To users in all accounts: Select this option to display the broadcast to all users in all accounts. To users in these accounts only: Select this option to display the broadcast to users of the selected accounts only. A list of the selected accounts is displayed below this option. Click and in the Select Accounts for Self Service Broadcast Display window, select the required accounts in the Available Accounts list, and then click the right arrow to move the selected accounts to the Selected Accounts list. You can make the broadcast available to a large number of accounts at the same time. You can also search for a particular account by using the Search field. To clear the search criteria, click Undo. After you select the required accounts, click OK. You can use the asterisk () wildcard character to match one or more characters at the end of your search criteria, but not the beginning or the middle. Note:* To display a broadcast to nonportal users, ensure that the Display in Self Service check box and the To users in all accounts option are selected or that the accounts of the nonportal users are added to the To users in these accounts only field. If no accounts are displayed in the Available Accounts list, ensure that the Customer Portal feature is enabled in Salesforce. For more information about enabling Customer Portal, see https://na12.salesforce.com/help/doc/user_ed.jsp?loc=help&target=customer_portal_setting_up.htm&section=CustomerPortal.

Note

The Short Description field is updated with the value in the Description field only when the Short Description field is blank.

Creating broadcasts

To create a broadcast

Broadcast fields

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