Sending Text Messages from the User Console

Learn about sending text messages from the user console to a selected user or to a group.

The User Console is a Vocera utility that runs in a web browser. For a summary of the User Console, refer to Vocera User Console Guide.

You cannot send text messages from a Vocera badge, but you can send them from a smartphone. Both Vocera badges and smartphones can receive text messages.

You can send text messages to a specific user or to any group defined in your system.

Your administrator can control whether text messages will be received by group members working at a different site. For example, if a user in a Trauma Team group at site A is working at site B at the time a text message is sent to that group, the user working at site B would not receive the message. The exception is that users in the Global site will always receive group messages.

Launch the User Console.
Click the Send Text on the navigation bar.

The Send Text page appears.
Click the Select Recipient button.

The Select User or Group dialog box appears, letting you specify the recipients of the message.
Choose the users and groups to whom you want to send the message.
Click Finish.
Enter up to 11 characters of text in the Subject field.
Enter up to 115 characters of text in the Message field.
Click Send.