You can use a variety of tools for sending messages to a group. We have outlined solutions, rated them for effort required, and have identified key considerations.
The University of Minnesota's informal mass email community of practice shares best practices on email tools, training, and processes in order to help mass email professionals efficiently engage with their constituent
Get answers about Salesforce, a constituent relationship management (CRM) system used at the University of Minnesota, from customers, partners experts, and official documentation.
Get answers about Salesforce, a constituent relationship management (CRM) system used at the University of Minnesota, from customers, partners experts, and official documentation.
The WorkflowGen Consortium includes users of WorkflowGen at the University of Minnesota. It provides administrative oversight and user experience insight.
The WorkflowGen Consortium includes users of WorkflowGen at the University of Minnesota. It provides administrative oversight and user experience insight.
Student CRM communicates with Peoplesoft, but not automatically. When a student emails from their UMN Email address the Contact is automatically associated with the Peoplesoft record.
Student CRM communicates with Peoplesoft, but not automatically. When a student emails from their UMN Email address the Contact is automatically associated with the Peoplesoft record.
Many users inquire about the differences between Google Groups and Listservs. Although Listserv was scheduled to be retired, this has been delayed indefinitely due to some of the unique benefits it provides.
Guidelines for Google Group Managers
The University of Minnesota and Google have negotiated contract terms and conditions that protect the privacy and confidentiality of University student, faculty, staff, a
Google Groups, a tool for a team of users to quickly collaborate with one another either via email, or any of Google's various applications, is available with Google Apps for the University of Minnesota.
CXM Forms are the logical grouping of fields available to XFP at the time of creating and editing a case.
Form Types
Case Types have two default forms that are already created for you.
A status allows you to give end-users a quick indication of where the case stands at any particular moment and what step the case may be waiting for. A case can be in only one status at a given point in time.
A status allows you to give end-users a quick indication of where the case stands at any particular moment and what step the case may be waiting for. Statuses are informational and categorical.
To carry XFP data forward into subsequent forms, you need to identify what XFP data needs to be stored in CXM. The data from your XFP fields goes into a corresponding CXM field.
CLI (R) - Class Validation (PS)
Description: Allows an end user to see how many times a student has taken a specific course and if they are allowed to take it again based on the student s i
SF Direct Deposit Status (PS)
Description: Displays the student financials direct deposit status of the currently logged in student. Returns a result of Active or Not Active .
SR - Career/Campus Selector (PS)
Description: Allows a user to select a career/campus from a list of all of the currently logged in user s active career/campus combinations.
SR - Dropped Enrollment (PS)
Description: Allows a currently logged in user to select a course from a list of courses that they are currently enrolled in.
UMN - Address - Mailing (PS)
Description: Displays the mailing address for the currently logged in user. If there is no mailing address, the field will be empty.
USERV - Active Position Lookup (PAN)
Description: Allows a user to search for a position that is in the PAN database by selecting any combination of department, job code, and position id.
USERV - D - Position Detail - Craft (PAN)
Description: Displays the craft of the currently selected position. If the position doesn t exist, the field will be empty.
USERV - D - Position Detail - Crew (PAN)
Description: Displays the crew of the currently selected position. If the position doesn t exist, the field will be empty.
USERV - D - Position Detail - Job Code (PAN)
Description: Displays the job code of the currently selected position. If the position doesn t exist, the field will be empty.
USERV - D - Position Detail - Site (PAN)
Description: Displays the site of the currently selected position. If the position doesn t exist, the field will be empty.
USERV - D - Position Detail - Supervisor (PAN)
Description: Displays the supervisor of the currently selected position. If the position doesn t exist, the field will be empty.
USERV - D - Position Detail - UM Title (PAN)
Description: Displays the um title of the currently selected position. If the position doesn t exist, the field will be empty.
USERV - D - Position Detail - Union (PAN)
Description: Displays the union of the currently selected position. If the position doesn t exist, the field will be empty.
USERV - D - Position Detail - Warehouse (PAN)
Description: Displays the warehouse of the currently selected position. If the position doesn t exist, the field will be empty.
UMN - ADM - FICE Code
Description: Allows a user to lookup a school's FICE code using the Peoplesoft external organization ID.
Source System: Peoplesoft
UMN - Flag - SR - Degree Checkout Status
Description: Allows a user to lookup the logged in end user's degree checkout status.
Source System: Peoplesoft
UMN - Flag - SR - User Has Active Career
Description: Determines if the logged in end user has an active career based on the career and campus selected by the form builder.
UMN - Perceptive Index - Full Name
Description: Pulls the logged in user's full name from Peoplesoft and trims it to 39 characters. This is intended to be used as a Perceptive index.
UMN - Perceptive Index - Trim Value
Description: Pass in a value and it will be trimmed down to 39 characters. This is intended to be used as a Perceptive index.
This checklist should be completed prior to submitting a request to have your form moved to production. It is intended to guide you through the list of items on your form that will be checked and will help prevent a d
When you create an Action Template, you will be prompted to choose a Template Type. Some of the listed Template Types are unavailable in our implementation of Jadu Forms, as shown in the list below the screenshot.
Documents can be sent to Perceptive Content for long-term storage. These records can either be archived or added to a Perceptive Content workflow process for further processing.
Creating a PDF
Your initial form can be created using a variety of tools, after which you can use Adobe Acrobat DC to make it a fillable PDF form.The software you can use to create a PDF include
Step 1: Gain Familiarity with XFP and Build a Form
In order to begin working with CXM (workflow), you must be familiar with some basic XFP functionality. This includes:
The Perceptive Content desktop client was made available to Facilities Management in order to prevent conflicts in Internet Explorer with Compass and WebNow.
When importing contacts into a data extension or list, you will be required to specify a unique subscriber key to identify the recipient within Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
When importing contacts into a data extension or list, you will be required to specify a unique subscriber key to identify the recipient within Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
When importing contacts into a data extension or list, you will be required to specify a unique subscriber key to identify the recipient within Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Each University of Minnesota business unit that uses Salesforce Marketing Cloud has designated a key person.
If you already use Salesforce Marketing Cloud and you want access to another busin
Each University of Minnesota business unit that uses Salesforce Marketing Cloud has designated a key person.
If you already use Salesforce Marketing Cloud and you want access to another busin
Each University of Minnesota business unit that uses Salesforce Marketing Cloud has designated a key person.
If you already use Salesforce Marketing Cloud and you want access to another busin
Tracked links in your Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SMC) emails go to SMC, and are redirected to your intended URL. These SMC links will eventually expire, after which they will redirect to a specified Redirect URL.
Tracked links in your Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SMC) emails go to SMC, and are redirected to your intended URL. These SMC links will eventually expire, after which they will redirect to a specified Redirect URL.
Tracked links in your Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SMC) emails go to SMC, and are redirected to your intended URL. These SMC links will eventually expire, after which they will redirect to a specified Redirect URL.
To help you conform with legal and policy requirements and save you time, University Relations has created footers and shared them with you in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
To help you conform with legal and policy requirements and save you time, University Relations has created footers and shared them with you in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
To help you conform with legal and policy requirements and save you time, University Relations has created footers and shared them with you in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Approvers will receive a TeamDynamix email with a link to the approval needed. This article is for those people who have the general technician role within TeamDynamix group and supervisor approvals.
There may be times when you need to give partial approval of access or service to a Requestor. Depending on the situation, use one of these methods to communicate partial approval:
This article gives an overview of what you are looking at when you click on the title or ticket ID number of a Request ticket in the Awaiting my Approvals section of TDNext.
This article details the Incident Task Process responsibilities for Tier 2 (T2), Desktop Support, and Tier 3 (T3) staff in OIT (Office of Information Technology).
This article covers how to create and update an asset record. Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for asset creation and updates are also provided. This article covers the follow topics:
When resolving a ticket, you should identify the knowledge you used to resolve the issue. If no article currently exists in our Knowledge Base, you should create one as a part of the resolution process.
TDX allows you to edit an existing article and then save your changes as a Draft. The Draft version won't be visible to others until you Approve This Revision it.
Technicians can edit an article owned by them or by their Group until it has been submitted for approval. Once submitted only those people with an editor role will be able to edit your article.
Anyone with a technician role in TDX can leave Feedback on an article and can see all the Feedback left on any article. Feedback helps us keep our Knowledge Base up to date and relevant.
Properly formed subjects greatly help with both searching and identifying which article to use.
Writing Article Titles
Follow these guidelines to better help users find your article:
You can quickly create a table of contents (or other in-page links) by associating anchors to selected headings (or text) and then linking to those anchors.
It is the responsibility of every OIT support professional to contribute to our knowledge ecosystem. Effective contribution requires collaboration, both within your team and with others.
You can help our users help themselves by providing them with links to knowledge articles published to the Technology Help website or wherever your department publishes
Anyone can create a new Knowledge Base article and submit it for approval by an editor.
Before someone submits an article, they should have reviewed it for technical accuracy first.
Create a Major Incident when any large scale outage occurs or when an outage impacts a large number of people. Work the Major Incident until the outage is resolved or a workaround is in place.
The focus of working through a Major Incident is to find a permanent fix for what is broken or a viable workaround that will allow affected users to continue working.
The purpose of a Problem ticket is to manage the analysis process for either what happened during a Major Incident ticket or for analysis of recurring incidents that seem to be related.
Two actions commonly taken when working a problem ticket are assigning tasks and providing status updates for technicians. This article covers common actions you will take such as updating technicians of status, assig
You can email report results to other people, whether or not they have access to TDNext. You can also set up the report to run on a specific schedule and email the results to users with that schedule.
You can share a report with other Responsible Groups. Sharing a report with other groups allows technicians within the group to run the report you created.
TDX comes with some pre-built reports which you can run right away. It also has many report templates that you can copy and modify to pull results for your own purposes.
After a user has already filled out a Service Request form, they may call in to see the status of the request. This article walks through the steps to do that without making a ticket.
Service Request forms are housed in the Client Portal area of TDX. These forms are also available to users throughout the public-facing website of the group or department that they are associated with.
During the lifecycle of a ticket, there may be additional stakeholders who need updates as work progresses. Adding them as Contacts to the ticket allows a technician to notify them when updating the ticket.
When working with colleagues on tickets and ticket tasks, use the Comment feature in the Ticket Feed to communicate back and forth regarding the work that needs to be done on a ticket.
Ticket Tasks can be created for all ticket classifications (Incident, Request, Major Incident, etc.). Ticket Tasks are used to assign a specific job to another Responsible Group.
You can create a ticket template to apply when filling out a ticket. Any field values you set in the template will auto-populate those same fields in the ticket saving time.
A Desktop in TDX is a display area that users can edit. It contains reports, lists of assignments, tickets, and other valuable information. Desktops cannot be shared.
After a technician resolves a ticket, the customer receives an email notification with the technician's final resolution notes indicating the ticket has been resolved.
There are several ways to search for tickets in TeamDynamix. Each ticket, no matter what ticket classification it is, receives its own ticket identification number. This article covers the following searches:
There are five ticket classification forms that technicians will use in the U of M Tickets application. Each form has fields tailored to the specific type of ticket it addresses.
Once a Ticket Task has been created, the Responsible technician can then begin to work the task. The ticket from which the Ticket Task was generated continues to be owned by the ticket's original Responsible Group.
As you work within TeamDynamix, you will see the language Parent and Child. This article explains what that terminology means and how it works for our processes and procedures.
Sometimes a user's name will not easily be found in the Requestor field. Use this article if you cannot find the name or internet ID of the person requesting help.
In this article:
This article discusses how to write a clear, concise title for a TDX ticket. These title guidelines apply to ticket types Incident, Request, Major Incident, and Problem.
Cancelling a section in Training Hub removes all enrollment options for the section. It also removes the section from the Training Hub Catalog (if it was enabled).
Training Administrators, Proxy Enrollers, and Instructors are all administrative users within Training Hub. Each role has different administrative privileges.
Courses with online content that are delivered via the Training Hub should store that content in Canvas. These instructions will help you set up a Canvas course site for use with the Training Hub.
Creating a course in Training Hub is a simple process of first entering the course and then adding the sections to the course. In this article we will cover the first part of that process.
We encourage training providers to adopt a standard convention for their course numbers. It will streamline creating courses and you will be able to quickly identify the courses you administer.
Each section of a course has default notifications. These are included whenever a new section is created. The default notifications are added using the system-wide templates.
The course catalog in Training Hub lists all courses that are active and have been published to the catalog. Each course will have at least one section.
Training Admins and Proxy Enrollers can enroll learners into a section in any course that they administer.
There are three main steps in the Enroll Learners process:
Training Admins and Proxy Enrollers can enroll multiple employees at once into any section they administer. Training Hub allows you to search for and select learners from:
Training Hub does not have a means of creating evaluations or assessments. You would need to create them outside of Training Hub. There are many options that you can use:
If you were enrolled in a course, and withdrew, the course will be listed on your Past Training tab. If the course is still active, there will be a Re-Enroll button.
A section can be removed from a course only if there are no enrolled, in progress, or completed learners in the section. The action will remove all information about the section. It cannot be undone.
Retiring a section in Training Hub removes all enrollment options for the section. Enrolled learners can still access the section information via their transcript. A retired section cannot be made Active.
If you have configured a Training Hub course section to have a Canvas delivery method and it is set to Canvas Reports Completion, you will need to configure the Canvas course so that the completions are reported back
In Training Hub, courses and sections each have lifecycles. At the top of the Edit Course page and the Edit Section page, a status box displays key information.
In the Training Hub, Sections contain the information about a specific training event. Sections enable you to offer the same course multiple times. For each occurrence of the course, you create a section.
Training Administrators and Proxy Enrollers can bulk withdraw learners from a course section that they have rights to. Only learners that have an Enrolled status can be withdrawn.
In WorkflowGen, "participants" can be defined as any people who interact with your process. In general there are three participant roles for a process:
A/B testing is a method of market testing in which you send two versions (Condition A and Condition B) of your communication to two test audiences from your subscriber list.
A guide from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concerning the CAN-SPAM Act, which sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have you stop ema
This vendor-supplied help article details the steps required to create a new data extension for storing subscriber data within Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
This vendor-supplied help article explains how to create templates using the either the Template Editor or the Content Builder in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
This vendor-supplied help article details the steps required to import new subscriber data into an existing data extension within Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
A full account of all the legal requirements and policy guidelines for mass email sent from users of Salesforce Marketing Cloud at the University of Minnesota. The document is owned by University Relations.
The data extension details section is where you can view statistics about the data extension and change properties of the data extension.To access data extension properties, follow these steps:
This site, maintained by University Relations (URelations), provides downloadable files containing offical University of Minnesota logos, wordmarks ("Driven to Discover"), seals, and other official branding elements s
Maintained by University Relations (URelations), this site contains guidelines for using the official UMN Branded Template in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, as well as the raw HTML code for use in any HTML email authorin
University Relation's web page on University of Minnesota web standards, and usability and accessibility related to the Univesity of Minnesota web templates.
This site, maintained by University Relations (URelations), provides downloadable images for social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+; as well as common icons for RSS feeds and
The Document Management team can provide reports to you, using the Business Insights tool, about Perceptive Content security, documents, users, and queues.
A 1min 33s video covering the topic of what happens when a student clicks on the chat button and fills out the form (only name and email are required), how the agent is notified of inc
A Salesforce article outlining how to update settings for the Stay-in-Touch functionality that allows you to request updated contact information from customers and users.
A 1min 34s video covering the topics of how a student can save the transcript of the chat to their computer and how either the student or Agent can end the chat.
A 1min 17s video covering the topics of how to select the Live Agent App, change your status to Online, and how the webpage looks when Agent is Online and when Agent is Offline. The video also notes that you
A Salesforce article with instructions on how to send a Stay-in-Touch contact information update request to a Salesforce Contact from the Contact record.
A Salesforce article with instructions on how to send a mass Stay-in-Touch request to multiple Contacts at one time to request updated contact information.
This document provides conceptual and procedural information about the reporting functionality available in the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Reports provide you aggregated information about your subscribers, sends, and
A Salesforce article that tells you how to follow records so you can see updates in your Chatter feed, including field changes, posts, tasks, and comments on records.
A Salesforce article that tells you how to follow records so you can see updates in your Chatter feed, including field changes, posts, tasks, and comments on records.
A 2min 31s video showing how to use Salesforce Chatter to create posts, polls, and bookmarks to collaborate effectively with your coworkers in Chatter.
A 2min 31s video showing how to use Salesforce Chatter to create posts, polls, and bookmarks to collaborate effectively with your coworkers in Chatter.
How-to article from Salesforce describing how to reply to Chatter Email Notifications and outlines for what to put in certain types of responses you may want to use to complete actions within Salesforce with your emai
How-to article from Salesforce describing how to reply to Chatter Email Notifications and outlines for what to put in certain types of responses you may want to use to complete actions within Salesforce with your emai
An article from Salesforce about Report Fields. The Fields pane displays fields from the selected report type, organized by folder. It also lists custom summary formulas, which you can cr
An article from Salesforce about Report Fields. The Fields pane displays fields from the selected report type, organized by folder. It also lists custom summary formulas, which you can cr
The University of Minnesota Marketing Cloud Users Google Group is a systemwide resource for anyone using Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SMC) at the University of Minnesota.
The University of Minnesota Marketing Cloud Users Google Group is a systemwide resource for anyone using Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SMC) at the University of Minnesota.
The University of Minnesota Marketing Cloud Users Google Group is a systemwide resource for anyone using Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SMC) at the University of Minnesota.
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud when you need to import subscriber data from a spreadsheet document (E
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud when you need to import subscriber data from a spreadsheet document (E
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud when you need to import subscriber data from a spreadsheet document (E
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud when utilizing Donor Management System (DMS) data extensions from the Univer
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud when utilizing Donor Management System (DMS) data extensions from the Univer
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud when utilizing Donor Management System (DMS) data extensions from the Univer
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud to a UMN internal LISTSERV mailing list.
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud to a UMN internal LISTSERV mailing list.
This screen-capture video walkthrough by Honey VanDerVenter will illustrate how to send a mass email message from Salesforce Marketing Cloud to a UMN internal LISTSERV mailing list.
Send Preview is a rendering of an email as it will be sent to a recipient. After the initial preview, you can proceed through the rest of the recipients on the list to see the preview for each.
This vendor-supplied help article details the various tabs and functionality of the Tracking Workspace.The tracking workspace contains the follow tabs:
The University of Minnesota's official privacy statement. This page is a required link in the footer of any mass email that is sent from the University to an external audience.
The validate functionality checks your email message for common issues that could prevent your email from being sent. Run validate on your email and make corrections before starting any sending process.
This self-help guide takes you through the process of creating a form, setting up the page elements (such as text fields, drop downs check boxes) and the corresponding properties, and managing the submitted form