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EMnet General Operation The Message Manager
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The Emergency Message Alert
When EMnet receives a message for your station,
an alarm will sound repeatedly, and an Emergency
Message Alert will appear on the desktop.
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The Emergency Message Alert
The From line tells you what site sent the
message.
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The Emergency Message Alert
The Subject line tells you about the content of
the message.
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NOTE When the countdown reaches zero, the alarm
will resume, and the alert will reappear at the
front of your desktop.
The Emergency Message Alert

• Clicking Silence
• Temporarily silences the audible alarm
• Sends the alert to the back of your desktop
• Starts a 60 second countdown
• If you click Silence repeatedly, it will add
  additional minutes to the countdown.

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The Emergency Message Alert

• Clicking Acknowledge
• Silences the audible alarm
• Opens the EMnet Message Manager
• Opens the message for viewing

NOTE If you have more than one waiting message,
the alarm will continue to sound until the last
message is acknowledged or silenced
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An Open EMnet Message
The originating site and the subject line will be
repeated at the top of the open message.
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An Open EMnet Message
You may read the text of the message in the
Message Body.
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An Open EMnet Message
If the message comes with one or more
attachments, they will appear here. To open an
attachment, double- click on the file name.

• Examples of attachments you might receive
• A message might include a report, a fact sheet,
  or other supporting information.
• A weather alert might come with weather graphics
• A missing person alert could come with an
  attached photograph
• A message sent to a broadcast station may come
  with an audio version of the message for broadcast

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An Open EMnet Message
If there is a printer installed on your EMnet
computer, you may print a hardcopy of the message
by clicking the printer icon.
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An Open EMnet Message
You may send a reply message to the originator by
pressing Reply, so long as you are authorized to
reply to the originating site.
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An Open EMnet Message
When you are finished reading the message, press
Done to close it. The message will be stored in
your INBOX in the EMnet Message Manager.
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The EMnet Message Manager
The EMnet Message Manager will open
automatically when an EMnet message arrives.
You may also open the Message Manager by
right-clicking on the satellite icon, and
selecting Manage Messages.
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Messages received by your EMnet site will be
stored in your INBOX
The EMnet Message Manager
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Messages received from the National Weather
Service will be stored in your WEATHER folder
The EMnet Message Manager
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Messages sent by your EMnet site will be stored
in your OUTBOX
The EMnet Message Manager
To move any message to your ARCHIVED folder,
select the message, and press Archive
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Messages sent by your EMnet site will be stored
in your OUTBOX
The EMnet Message Manager
To move any message to your DELETED folder,
select the message, and press Delete
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Messages deleted from your EMnet site will be
stored in your DELETED folder.
The EMnet Message Manager
If you select a message from your DELETED folder
and press Delete again, the message will be
erased completely.
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Messages you archive will be stored in your
ARCHIVED folder.
The EMnet Message Manager
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Examples of message you send frequently may be
stored in DRAFTS for easy retrieval.
The EMnet Message Manager
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The EMnet Message Manager
To view a previously received message, select the
message, and press View
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The EMnet Message Manager
NOTE The COMPOSE EAS button is only available
to authorized stations. See the Composing EAS
Module for further information.
To compose an EAS message, select Compose EAS
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The EMnet Message Manager
As with email, you may open the EMnet Send
Program by selecting a message and choosing to
Reply, Forward, or Reply to All.
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The EMnet Message Manager
Or, press New to begin composing a new message.
This will also open the EMnet Send Program.
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The EMnet Send Program
To specify message recipients, click on the TO
button. This will bring up your address book.
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The EMnet Send Program
The Specify Message Recipients dialog contains a
complete list of stations that your site is
authorized to send to. (If new sites are
commissioned in your area, they will be
automatically added to the list)
NOTE If you wish, you can organize your address
book into groups for easy sending. You can also
define email addresses to receive Emnet messages
sent from this terminal. For more information,
see the Address Manager tutorial module.
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The EMnet Send Program
To specify message recipients, select a name or
names from the Available Address list, and press
Add to put that name in the Destination box.
You may have an address in your list with a 900
code (i.e., CL.900 or IL.931. This is a
server-defined group address. Sending a message
to this group will send the message to every
member of that group. (You can also use the
Address Manager to create client-defined groups.)
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The EMnet Send Program
Press OK when you are done.
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The EMnet Send Program
The site names you selected are now listed.
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The EMnet Send Program
Type a subject heading into the Subject line.
NOTE EMnet will not send a message that does
not have a subject!
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The EMnet Send Program
If you wish to attach a file to your EMnet
message, click the paperclip button to browse
your computer for files to attach.
Attachments may be no larger than 1 mb after
compression.
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The EMnet Send Program
Type your message into the Message Body
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The EMnet Send Program
NOTE Your station will be configured with a
highest authorized priority. Your stations
highest authorized priority may be 1(lowest
priority)
Specify your messages Priority
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The EMnet Send Program
Priority 1 is the lowest priority, used for tests
and non-emergencies. Priorities 2 and 3 are
generally emergency-level messages from the
State. Priorities 4 through 6 are reserved for
federal use.
Specify your messages Priority
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The EMnet Send Program
Request Receipts is checked by default. This
allows you to monitor message delivery in the
Receipts dialog Box.
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The EMnet Send Program
To store a copy of this message in DRAFTS to send
later, click Draft.
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The EMnet Send Program
To cancel this message, click Cancel.
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The EMnet Send Program
To send this message, click Send Now. This will
bring up the Receipts dialog Box.
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The Receipts Dialog Box
When the Receipts dialog Box first appears, it
will be empty while it transmits the message
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The Receipts Dialog Box
When the server sends the list of recipients,
each site you sent your message to will be listed.
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The Receipts Dialog Box
The icons beside each listed destination tell you
the status of your message.
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The Receipts Dialog Box
This red icon tells us that the message has been
sent to these stations, but has not yet been
received.
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The Receipts Dialog Box
Notice that the Received field now has a time
stamp.
This yellow icon tells us that CL.001 and CL.002
have received their messages, but no one has
acknowledged the message yet.
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The Receipts Dialog Box
Notice that CL.006 still shows the red icon,
indicating that the message has not been received
at this station. This may mean CL.006 is
currently turned off and unable to receive
messages.
The status bar below shows percentages of how
many stations have received the message.
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The Receipts Dialog Box
The Acknowledged field now has a time stamp.
This envelope icon tells us that a person at the
CL.002 station has hit the Acknowledge button to
open this message
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The Receipts Dialog Box
When all stations have received and acknowledged
the message, the Receipts Dialog will show the
dates and times.
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To view receipts for a previously sent message
Select the message from the Outbox in the Message
Manager
Click Receipts to open the Receipts Dialog for
that message
The receipt list will be available only if
Request Receipts was checked when the message was
first sent.
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You have completed the EMnet Message
Manager Tutorial
Thank you for your time!If you have further
questions, please contact Comlabs Tech
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