There are a few steps to setting up an Auto Poll (Instructions start from the
Create a new Communication Activity record. If one already exists that has the desired activities checked, skip this set
of instructions.
1. Select
2. Click the New Record button.
3. Name the new record, then click OK.
4. Click the checkboxes next to the activities to be done in the Auto Poll.
5. Click the Save button.
6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 as necessary.
7. Click the Close button.
Create an Auto Polling schedule. If one already exists that has the desired Communication Activity records
and the desired times, skip this step.
1. Select
2. Click the New Record button.
3. Name the new record, then click OK.
4. Under the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly sections, select the
5. Click the Save button.
6. Click the Close button.
Assign the Auto Polling record to the phones that are to be polled using this schedule.
1. Click the Phones & Customers button.
2. Click the
3. Select the phones to which the new Auto Polling record will be assigned
(select List from the Phone pull-down menu), or select the criteria for the phone records by selecting
items from the From column. See the help for the
4. In the To column and the Out Poll row, select the Auto Poll record by the name it was given in step 3 of the Create an Auto Polling schedule section above.
5. Optional: Click the Gauge Updates button to find out how many records will be
effected by this change.
6. Click the Apply Updates button. Panorama states how many records were changed.
The phones that were updated by the Global Edit will now be polled as
determined above.
Note: If this is the first Automatic Poll created, some other things may need to be
done. Please see the section
Set Up an Auto Poll