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How to Create an Emergency Alert?

A brief tutorial for how to create emergency notifications and send them to the Quiltt mobile app or digital signage. It's important to note, that Emergency Alerts are the only piece of content shown on a display when they are active.

Written by Freddie Peyerl
Updated over a week ago

Quiltt Dashboard > Left-hand Menu > Emergency Alerts

1. Follow the above-mentioned workflow to land on the Emergency Alerts screen.

2. To create an alert, click the Add Alert button. This takes you to the New Alert screen.

Add Alert

3. Select the type of alert from the Alert Type heading.

Alert Type

4. Enter the message you want to appear for the alert using the Alert Message field.

Alert Message

5. Enter any additional information using the Additional Info field.

Additional Info

6. Select the duration for which the emergency alert will remain active using the How long should this update be active? section.

How long should this update be active?

7. Select the location of display for the emergency alert from the radio buttons under the Display Location heading.

Display Location

8. Filter the locations where the emergency alert appears using the radio buttons under the Display Filtering heading.

Display Filtering

9. In case you want push notifications to be sent for it on all associated mobile devices, enable the Send push notification to all associated mobile devices toggle. This enables the recipient group dropdown.

Mobile Push Notifications

10. Select the recipient group from the Recipient Group dropdown.

Recipient Group

11. Once the details are entered, click the Create button.

Create

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